Obesity, hypertension and insulin resistance in childhood - A pilot study

Biomedical Papers

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 77-82

  Pastucha, Dalibor ^a   Talafa, Viktor ^b   Malincikova, Jana ^a   Cihalik, Cestmir ^a   Hyjanek, Jiri ^a   Horakova, Dagmar ^a   Janout, Vladimir ^a  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b Department of Internal Medicine   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

HOMA; Hypertension in children; Insulin resistance; Obesity in children; QUICKI

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953315893     PISSN: 12138118     EISSN: 12138118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5507/bp.2010.013     Document Type: Article

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