Abstract
Body composition and nuchal skinfold thickness in pediatric brain tumor patients
Highlights
Recent reports suggest that survivors of pediatric brain tumors are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease [1,2,3,4]
CP patients showed higher body mass index (BMI), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), nuchal skinfold thickness (NST) and caliper-measured skinfold thickness (cSFT) when compared with brain tumor (BT) and healthy controls (HC)
NST could serve as a novel useful parameter for assessment of body composition (BC) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in BT patients
Summary
Recent reports suggest that survivors of pediatric brain tumors are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease [1,2,3,4]. As obesity is a well-known risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease in the general population, this might provide a potential explanation of the added cardiometabolic risk in survivors of pediatric brain tumors 5. When obesity rates are analyzed based on body mass index (BMI), pediatric brain tumor patients are observed to have body mass index levels similar to the general population, which is not likely to explain the observed increased risk of cardiovascular disease in pediatric brain tumor survivors [6,7]. Cardiovascular disease (CVD), and relapse/progression have impact on prognosis in pediatric brain tumor (BT) patients
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