ESPE Abstracts

Pediatric obesity is intimately related to the development of Metabolic Syndrome (MetS), which is a cluster of metabolic alterations associated with an increased risk of premature death. Some indexes of obesity, such as the Triponderal Mass Index (TMI), Body Mass Index (BMI), and Body Mass Index z-score (BMI-zscore), are used to identify children at high risk. This study aims to compare the discriminative ability of BMI, BMI and BMI-zscore to determine the risk of developing M...