Carnitine deficiency in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes

Journal of Diabetes and its Complications

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 271-274

  Mamoulakis, Dimitrios ^a   Galanakis, Emmanouil ^a   Dionyssopoulou, Eva ^a   Evangeliou, Athanassios ^a   Sbyrakis, Stelios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Carnitine; Children; Diabetic complications; Type 1 diabetes

Indexed keywords

ACYLCARNITINE; ALBUMIN; CARNITINE; CHOLESTEROL; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CARNITINE DEFICIENCY; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALE; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; CARNITINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MALE;

EID: 4444221562     PISSN: 10568727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1056-8727(03)00091-6     Document Type: Article

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