Obese high schoolers may have lower levels of a weight-managing hormone than normal-weight adolescents, another study says.

"Our study is the first to take a gander at levels of spexin in the pediatric populace," said Dr. Seema Kumar, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Past studies in grown-ups inferred that spexin is likely required in controlling the body's vitality adjust and fat mass.

For this study, analysts surveyed levels of spexin in 51 stout and 18 ordinary weight adolescents, ages 12 to 18.

Youngsters with the least levels of spexin were more than five times as prone to be hefty than those with the largest amounts of the hormone, the scientists found.

The study was distributed online May 24 in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.

"Past examination has discovered lessened levels of this hormone in grown-ups with stoutness. Generally speaking, our discoveries recommend spexin may assume a part in weight increase starting at an early age," Kumar said in a diary news discharge.

"It is important that we see such clear contrasts in spexin levels amongst fat and incline young people," she said.

Be that as it may, more research is expected to investigate how spexin may be included in the advancement of adolescence corpulence and whether it can be utilized to treat or deal with the condition, Kumar included.

Additionally, the scientists just found an affiliation, instead of a circumstances and end results join, in this study.

Around 17 percent of American kids and young people are corpulent, which builds their danger for genuine and excessive wellbeing conditions. Youth stoutness costs $14 billion in extra physician endorsed medications, and crisis room and outpatient visits every year, as indicated by the Endocrine Society.