Browsing by Subject "obesity"
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Perinatal androgen exposure and adipose tissue programming: Is there an impact on body weight fate? (Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2015)© 2015 Informa UK, Ltd. Obesity is a major concern in public health because it is one of the main risk factors for the development of non-transmissible chronic diseases. The fact that there is a clear sex dimorphism in ...
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(Soc. Argentina Pediatria, 2016)Given that childhood obesity is an epidemic, the frequency of critically-ill patients who are overweight or obese seen at intensive care units has increased rapidly. Adipose tissue is an endocrine organ that secretes a ...
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(2004)Objective We studied the prevalence of weight excess and short stature among school-age children in Chile over the past decade. Methods We designed a descriptive cross-sectional, school-based study to analyze nutritional ...