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SUBMITTER: Delvin E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4922334 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Delvin Edgard E Patey Natasha N Dubois Josée J Henderson Melanie M Lévy Émile É
Journal of medical biochemistry 20141008 1
The rapidly increasing prevalence of childhood obesity and its associated co-morbidities such as hypertriglyceridemia, hyper-insulinemia, hypertension, early atherosclerosis, metabolic syndrome, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease are major public health concerns in many countries. Therefore the trends in child and adolescent obesity should be closely monitored over time, as in the near future, we may anticipate a major increase of young adults with the stigmata of the metabolic syndrome, and ...[more]