By Madeline Ellis
Published: Tuesday, 2 March 2010

Being at risk for developing heart disease or having a stroke was once something only adults had to worry about. But now children are being added to the meld, many of them as young as three years old. In fact, a recent study found that about twice as many obese 3-to-5-year old children had elevated levels of C-reactive protein (CRP)—an inflammatory marker that experts say has been shown to predict the risk of heart disease, stroke and death under certain conditions—compared to those at healthy weights. And that difference grew to more than four times the frequency in teenagers from 15 to 17 years old.

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