Determinants of metabolic syndrome in children with bronchial asthma
The data indicate that the major factors in the formation of the metabolic syndrome are: family history, age of parents at the time of birth, somatic mother’s pathology and his father, the bad habits of the parents (smoking, alcohol consumption), poor nutrition, lack of exercise, acute and chronic diseases, the transferred children at different stages of life. The findings suggest that children with overweight prevails hypodynamic lifestyle. As is known, physical inactivity is a risk factor not only for obesity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes and atherogenic dyslipidemia and hypertension, which are the main components of the metabolic syndrome. Almost half of the children (46.8%) were reduced physical activity, 30.6% had no regular physical activity.