Adiposity and carotid-intima media thickness in children and adolescents: a systematic review

BACKGROUND: Adiposity in childhood is associated with later cardiovascular disease (CVD), but it is unclear whether this relationship is independent of other risk factors experienced in later life, such as smoking and hypertension. Carotid-intima media thickness (cIMT) is a measure of subclinical at...

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Published in:BMC Pediatr
Main Authors: Park, Min Hae, Skow, Áine, De Matteis, Sara, Kessel, Anthony S., Saxena, Sonia, Viner, Russell M., Kinra, Sanjay
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4609088/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26475608
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-015-0478-5
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