Overweight children face heart risks as young as 3, study says

Monday, December 12, 2011 - 15:00 in Health & Medicine

When children are overweight, heart-health risk factors such as dangerous cholesterol levels and artery inflammation can start as early as age 3, according to a University of Miami study published in this week's medical journal Obesity.

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