Uric acid indicates a high cardiovascular risk profile but Is not closely associated with insulin resistance in obese adolescents

Diabetes Care

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Mangge, Harald ^a   Pilz, Stefan ^b   Haj Yahya, Samih ^a   Gunter Almer, Mag ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Department of Public Health ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; INSULIN; URIC ACID;

ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LETTER; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; VASCULAR DISEASE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; URIC ACID;

EID: 48649086668     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc07-2411     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

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