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Metabolic syndrome in pediatrics.
Advances in clinical chemistry - 1 Jan 2014
Kursawe Romy, Santoro Nicola
Abstract excerpt
The ever growing prevalence of childhood obesity is being accompanied by an increase in the pediatric population of diseases once believed to be exclusive of the adulthood such as the metabolic syndrome (MS). The MS has been defined as the link between insulin resistance, hypertension, dyslipidemia, impaired glucose tolerance, and other metabolic abnormalities associated with an increased risk of atherosclerotic...
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