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Metabolic syndrome in pediatrics: old concepts revised, new concepts discussed.
Pediatric clinics of North America - 1 Oct 2011
D'Adamo Ebe, Santoro Nicola, Caprio Sonia
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The worldwide epidemic of childhood obesity in the last decades is responsible for the occurrence in pediatrics of disorders once mainly found in adults, such as the metabolic syndrome. A key factor in the pathogenesis of metabolic syndrome is insulin resistance, a phenomenon occurring mainly in obese subjects with a general resistance to the insulin effect only on carbohydrates metabolism. Given that the...
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