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Assessment of left ventricular mass index could predict metabolic syndrome in obese children

BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity is a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases in children and adults. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the serum leptin level and the cardiac changes in normotensive obese children and to study the relationship between left ventricular mass ind...

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Autores principales: Alkholy, Usama M., Ahmed, Ihab A., Karam, Nehad A., Ali, Yasser Fathy, Yosry, Ahmed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4917708/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27358533
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsha.2015.06.002