Study of Chronic Degenerative Diseases

The prevalence of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) in children have been increasing in parallel at an alarming rate. In particular, the increasing prevalence of type 2 DM is attributable to genetic factors, clinical (waist circumference, adiposity and physical condition) and biochemical (insulin secretion and sensitivity, lipids and inflammation) risk, each of which represents an independent risk. As has already studied and published in the investigators' group, the child population of Toluca has greater expression of cardiovascular risk factors than their counterparts in Bogota, Colombia. The metabolic characterization of the young population of Toluca and Bogota with new biomarkers such as homocysteine and leptin is an activity that aims to provide more metabolic data affecting young people. Hypothesis: After six months of follow-up there will be a greater relative risk in Mexican population to have identified another component of metabolic syndrome compared to the young population of Colombia.