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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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Autores principales: Park, Min Hae, Skow, Áine, De Matteis, Sara, Kessel, Anthony S., Saxena, Sonia, Viner, Russell M., Kinra, Sanjay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4609088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26475608
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-015-0478-5