Differences of blood lipid levels and self-consciousness level between children with moderate to severe obesity and normal children / 中国医师进修杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To compare and analyze the differences of blood lipid levels and self-consciousness level between children with moderate to severe obesity and normal children. Methods The subjects were the pupils of Grade 6 from 3 primary schools in Shangqiu city between December 2002 and March 2003. Totally 912 students participated in the measurement of body height and body mass, and 56 of them accorded with the diagnostic standard of obesity for children, 26 children with moderate to severe obesity were taken as the observational group. Another 26 healthy children (control group) of the same grade with normal body height and body mass took part in the study voluntarily. In both groups, blood lipids were detected and Piers-Harris children′s self-concept scale (PHCSS) was given by professional clinicians and professional psychological physicians respectively. Results The blood lipid indexes of TC, TG, LDL-C and HDL-C in the moderate to severe obesity group were obviously different from those in the normal body mass group (P