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Is Waist-height Ratio Associated with Thyroid Antibody Levels in Children with Obesity?

OBJECTIVE: Obesity is known to affect thyroid function. Recently, waist-height ratio (WHtR) has been considered as a useful marker of subclinical hypothyroidism in obese cases, but its relation with thyroid autoimmunity still remains unclear. We evaluated the effect of body fat mass, WHtR, and metab...

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Autores principales: Özcabi, Bahar, Tarçın, Gürkan, Şengenç, Esma, Tahmiscioğlu Bucak, Feride, Ercan, Oya, Bolayırlı, İbrahim Murat, Evliyaoğlu, Olcay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Galenos Publishing 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8186330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33006550
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/jcrpe.galenos.2020.2020.0170