INS and obesity disorder: Moreover, while the analysis of IMT has oftenbeen used in cross-sectional studies, only a few clinical trials with children haveemployed this parameter.20 TheCardiovascular Risk in Young Finns study,27 which comprised a 21 year follow-up longitudinalinvestigation, suggested that obesity indices, such as BMI, skinfold, serumlipoproteins, insulin, glucose and blood pressure, measured in youth, aresignificantly associated to increased IMT and decreased elasticity of the carotidartery in adulthood.