Table 1.

Occurrence of selected cardiovascular disease risk factors in a data set of normal-weight versus overweight/obese children and adolescents (modified after Flechtner-Mors et al. [10])

	Normal-weight children (n = 14,298), %	Overweight and obese children (n = 63,025), %
Elevated blood pressure	6.1	35.3
Elevated total cholesterol	8.6	13.8
Elevated LDL cholesterol	7.0	14.5
Elevated triglycerides	3.0	13.6
Reduced HDL cholesterol	3.0	10.1

LDL = Low-density lipoprotein; HDL = high-density lipoprotein.