Cardiac autonomic dysfunction in school age children with overweight and obesity.

Background And Aims: We investigated cardiac autonomic function in overweight and obese school-age children.

Methods And Results: Quantitative cross-sectional study conducted with children (n = 110) of both genders. Children were divided by normal weight (NW; n = 54), overweight (OW; n = 24) and obese (OB; n = 32).