Updated: It suggests all children need to be evaluated by blood metabolic biomarkers too Share Article AAA Women and children line up to receive free meals from a non-government organisation during a lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus in Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: AP It suggests all children need to be evaluated by blood metabolic biomarkers too :A recent paper by researchers from St John’s Medical College and Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research has found that, in India, metabolic indicators of obesity (abnormal blood sugar or blood lipids) are seen well before the child becomes obviously overweight by anthropometry.