Relatively lower body mass index is associated with an excess of severe truncal asymmetry in healthy adolescents: Do white adipose tissue, leptin, hypothalamus and sympathetic nervous system influence truncal growth asymmetry?

BACKGROUND: In healthy adolescents normal back shape asymmetry, here termed truncal asymmetry (TA), is evaluated by higher and lower subsets of BMI. The study was initiated after research on girls with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) showed that higher and lower BMI subsets discriminated patte...

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Autores principales: Grivas, Theodoros B, Burwell, R Geoffrey, Mihas, Constantinos, Vasiliadis, Elias S, Triantafyllopoulos, Georgios, Kaspiris, Angelos
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2717060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19566930
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-7161-4-13

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2717060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19566930
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-7161-4-13

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