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The prevalence of metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk factors in a group of obese Saudi children and adolescents: A hospital-based study

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: We assessed the distribution of risk factors associated with the metabolic syndrome in a group of obese Saudi children and adolescents. No previous studies had addressed this issue in the Saudi pediatric population. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed the med...

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Autores principales: Taha, Doris, Ahmed, Omaima, Sadiq, Bakr bin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3290052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19700892
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0256-4947.55164