Triglyceride and non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol as predictors of cardiovascular disease risk factors in Chinese Han children

To investigate the role of serum cholesterol and triglyceride in the assessment of cardiovascular disease risk factors in children and adolescents. Case-control study. Children's Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China. Children from 6 years to 17 year old. 188 with simple obesity, and 431 with obesity and metabolic abnormalities. 274 age and gender-matched healthy children as controls. Receiver operating characteristic curves were used to analyze the detection of cardiovascular disease risk factors by cholesterol and triglyceride in children and adolescents. The ranges of areas under receiver operating characteristic curves (AUC) for triglyceride and non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol were 0.798-0.860 and 0.667-0.749, respectively to detect cardiovascular disease risk factors. The ranges of AUC for low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, total cholesterol, and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol were 0.631-0.718, 0.596-0.683, and 0.292-0.376, respectively. Triglyceride and non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol are better than low-density lipoprotein cholesterol as predictors of cardiovascular disease risk factors in Chinese Han children and adolescents.