Indian Pediatricians Should be Alert to Childhood CV Risk Factors

In an effort to curb the development of pediatric cardiovascular (CV) risk factors, a recent paper in the Indian Journal of Pediatrics presents the most important risk factors for the early development of CV disease:

• Prenatal risk factors, including maternal adiposity and prenatal malnutrition;
• Childhood obesity, a growing trend in India;
• Unhealthy diet, an increasing trend in India as traditional foods become replaced with processed foods;
• Physical inactivity;
• Tobacco use, with addiction starting at an early age in India; and...