Variance in the transaminase levels over the body mass index spectrum in 10- and 13-year-olds

Pediatrics International

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 813-819

  Okuda, Masayuki ^a,b   Kunitsugu, Ichiro ^a   Yoshitake, Norikazu ^a   Hinoda, Yuji ^a,b   Suehiro, Yutaka ^a   Okuda, Yumi ^c   Hobara, Tatsuya ^a,b  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kagawa Medical University   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL SANYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

alanine aminotransferase; aspartate aminotransferase; body mass index; gamma glutamyltransferase; Japanese

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; ENZYME ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; OBESITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 77957364999     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.2010.03167.x     Document Type: Article

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