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Obesity, but not overweight, is associated with plantar light touch sensation in children aged 8 to 16 years: A cross‐sectional study

OBJECTIVE: Increased foot‐ground contact loading engenders adaptive glabrous skin thickening and can decrease mechanoreceptor acuity and alter plantar cutaneous sensation. There has not been any research on whether overweight and obesity are similarly associated with normal plantar cutaneous sensati...

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Autores principales: Ajisafe, Toyin, Gilson, Andrea, Garcia, Theresa, DeAnda, Noe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7042024/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32128248
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/osp4.387