A clinically relevant method to screen for hepatic steatosis in overweight adolescents: a cross sectional study

BACKGROUND: To develop a screening algorithm to detect hepatic steatosis in overweight and obese adolescents. METHODS: We performed a cross sectional study of 129 overweight adolescents 13–18 yrs. The primary outcome, hepatic steatosis was defined as an intracellular triglyceride content > 5.5 mg...

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Publicado en:BMC Pediatr
Autores principales: Saad, Vera, Wicklow, Brandy, Wittmeier, Kristy, Hay, Jacqueline, MacIntosh, Andrea, Venugopal, Niranjan, Ryner, Lawrence, Berard, Lori, McGavock, Jonathan
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Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4599758/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26450572
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-015-0465-x
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