Impact of Overweight and Obesity in children and adolescents on complete blood picture parameters

Obesity is a rising health problem in children and adolescents leads to serious metabolic and cardiac complications. Assessment of the effect of obesity on complete blood count in children and adolescents. This study was conducted on 40 overweight and obese children attending children outpatient obesity clinic in Minia University children hospital aged 6-18 years and 40 apparently healthy control age and sex matched; complete blood count (CBC) was done to all enrolled subjects then platelet lymphocyte ratio and neutrophil lymphocyte ratio were calculated. This study showed significant higher Platelet count, total leucocytic count and platelet lymphocyte ratio in overweight and obese than the control, while there was insignificant difference between overweight and obese as regard these parameters. Overweight and Obese children had an increase in platelet count, total leucocytic count and platelet lymphocyte ratio which may be due to a low grade of chronic inflammation.