Childhood obesity is the "disease of the century". This article reviews the early cardiovascular risk factors and the recommendations to prevent them in the overweight and obese children. A comprehensive search of published literature was carried out to identify all articles published on this topic in English and Italian from 1999 to 2020.
Keywords: atherosclerosis; cardiovascular risk and disease; childhood; hypertension; obesity.
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