Higher levels of inflammation in obese children

Nutrition

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 480-481

  Visser, Marjolein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FIBRINOGEN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INTERLEUKIN 6; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADOLESCENT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EDITORIAL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0034984685     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-9007(01)00509-3     Document Type: Editorial

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