Increased carotid intima-media thickness and stiffness in obese children

Diabetes Care

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Iannuzzi, Arcangelo ^a   Licenziati, Maria Rosaria ^b   Acampora, Ciro ^b   Salvatore, Vittorio ^a   Auriemma, Lucia ^b   Romano, Maria Luigia ^b   Panico, Salvatore ^c   Rubba, Paolo ^c   Trevisan, Maurizio ^d  

^a Cava de' Tirreni Hospital   (Italy)

^b CARDARELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 19444368580     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.27.10.2506     Document Type: Article

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