[Prevention of adult cardiovascular disease should start from childhood]

Obesity, related cardiometabolic disorders (including high blood pressure, dyslipidemia and high fasting glucose etc.) and unhealthy lifestyles are now epidemic. These cardiovascular risk factors can track from childhood into adulthood, thereby increasing risk of cardiovascular disease in adulthood. Thus, it is important and necessary to establish children cohort study, to examine the effects of childhood cardiovascular risk factors on abnormal subclinical cardiovascular structure and function in adolescence and adulthood, then to take specific and effective measures for prevention, intervention and control. This will have important public health implications for the prevention of adult cardiovascular disease.