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Asian Adolescents with Excess Weight are at Higher Risk for Insulin Resistance than their Non-Asian Peers

OBJECTIVE: Evaluate whether Asian-American adolescents have higher metabolic risk from excess weight than non-Asians. METHODS: 733 students, 14- to 19-years old, completed a school-based health screening. The 427 Asian and 306 non-Asian students were overall equivalent on age, sex, and family income...

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Autores principales: Elsamadony, Ahmed, Yates, Kathy F., Sweat, Victoria, Yau, Po Lai, Mangone, Alex, Joseph, Adriana, Fierman, Arthur, Convit, Antonio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5664218/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28941205
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oby.22003