Effect of Different Body Composition on Insulin Resistance, Lipid Profile andMotor Skills in Children

Obesity is one of the factors associated with metabolic syndrome. The aimof the present study was to compare gross and fine motor skills, insulin resistance and lipid profile innormal, overweight and obese children.

In the present study, 120 male and female students were randomly selected by cluster samplingand after final selection, they were divided into three groups of 40 people with normal weight,overweight and obese. The three groups were matched according to their year of birth and body massindex. In order the Bruininks-Oseretsky short form test was used to calculate the motor proficiencyscore. Biochemical variables were measured while fasting. Statistical analysis, factor analysis of varianceand Bonferroni post hoc test were used at a significance level of P≤0.05.

The results showed that significant decreases in gross and fine motor skills with increasing bodymass index (P<0.001). Insulin resistance was significantly higher in obese and overweight groups thannormal weight groups (P<0.001). Triglyceride levels were significantly higher in the obese group than thenormal weight group (P=0.013).

According to the results, it can be said that in addition to reducing children's motor skills,increasing body weight causes parameters related to metabolic syndrome in children