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Children With Otitis Media Have Higher BMI

Children with otitis media with effusion have 35 percent higher body mass index (BMI) than children with no history of ear infection, said researchers.

Otitis media with effusion but without earache or fever affects the obese children more frequently. Reason for this had not been researched.

The researchers had divided the otitis media children into two groups, obese and non-obese, and studied the drug effects.

For this case study 155 children who were between the age group of two to seven years were used at a university-affiliated hospital. 155 children comprised of 85 boys and 70 girls and were treated with unilateral or bilateral ventilation tubes for otitis media with effusion.

During the case study, children’s BMI, serum triglyceride, and total cholesterol levels were compared with 118 children who didn’t have any history of ear infection.

The researchers had written in the journal that though the standards for obesity using cholesterol levels have not been known, but serum triglyceride and total cholesterol concentrations were greater in obese kids.

While the researchers had defined obesity for both triglycerides and total cholesterol as values not within the normal range for age and sex.

Seung Geun Yeo, M.D., Ph.D., Kyung Hee University, and colleagues, reported in the Archives of Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery that children with otitis media also have higher mean cholesterol levels than those children who were not affected with this disease.