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Gender-related differences in cardiometabolic risk factors and lifestyle behaviors in treatment-seeking adolescents with severe obesity

BACKGROUND: Obesity during adolescence is associated with cardiovascular mortality in adulthood. The adverse obesity-related cardiometabolic risk profile is already observed in adolescence. We aimed to examine possible gender differences in cardiometabolic risk factors and lifestyle behaviors among...

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Autores principales: Barstad, Lisa Ha, Júlíusson, Pétur B., Johnson, Line Kristin, Hertel, Jens Kristoffer, Lekhal, Samira, Hjelmesæth, Jøran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5813385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29444663
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-018-1057-3