Excess Weight Alters Results of Blood Tests in Kids

Medicine
Written By Mary Bates
Calle Eklund/V-wolf, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY 3.0 license.

Calle Eklund/V-wolf, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY 3.0 license.

Even in children and teens, obesity has been linked to major health problems, such as diabetes and heart disease. But the effects of extra weight may show up in some tests before disease develops. Weight can affect results of routine blood tests in kids, new data show. And those results might highlight kids at risk of developing disease. 

Read the whole story at Science News for Students: Excess Weight Alters Results of Blood Tests in Kids and Teens.

Mary Bates
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