Central role of fatty liver in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance in obese adolescents

Diabetes Care

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1817-1822

  D'Adamo, Ebe ^a,b   Cali, Anna M G ^a   Weiss, Ram ^c   Santoro, Nicola ^a   Pierpont, Bridget ^a   Northrup, Veronika ^a   Caprio, Sonia ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; GLYCEROL;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAT CONTENT; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GLUCONEOGENESIS; HUMAN; INSULIN RELEASE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LIVER; MALE; MUSCLE; OBESITY; PANCREAS ISLET CELL FUNCTION; PATHOGENESIS;

ADOLESCENT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY COMPOSITION; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GLUCOSE CLAMP TECHNIQUE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBESITY;

EID: 77958180000     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc10-0284     Document Type: Article

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