Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents/THE AUTHORS REPLY

Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents/THE AUTHORS REPLY

TO THE EDITOR: Weiss et al. report that in 293 young obese subjects, C-reactive protein was related to the degree of obesity but not to the level of insulin resistance or the presence or absence of the metabolic syndrome. In 588 obese children, we observed that C-reactive protein, fibrinogen, and ur...

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Veröffentlicht in:The New England journal of medicine 2004-09, Vol.351 (11), p.1146
Hauptverfasser: Engelmann, Guido, Lenhartz, Henning, Grulich-Henn, Jürgen, Davis, Timothy M E
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:TO THE EDITOR: Weiss et al. report that in 293 young obese subjects, C-reactive protein was related to the degree of obesity but not to the level of insulin resistance or the presence or absence of the metabolic syndrome. In 588 obese children, we observed that C-reactive protein, fibrinogen, and uric acid levels were correlated with standard deviation scores for BMI (with the following respective results: r=0.191, P
ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406