Browsing by Author "Blanco, Estela"
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(2012)Background. Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome is increasing in pediatric age groups worldwide. Meeting the criteria for the metabolic syndrome puts children at risk for later cardiovascular and metabolic disease. ...
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(Pan American Health Organization, 2022)Objective. To estimate the point prevalence and likely ranges of pregnancy-induced hypertension, pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes, low birth weight and preterm delivery in Latin America and the Caribbean, and evaluate ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2021)Introducción: La exposición a contaminación atmosférica por material particulado fino (MP2,5) durante el embarazo se ha relacionado con un mayor riesgo de eventos adversos al nacer, según la evidencia disponible en ...
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(Hindawi Publishing, 2015)Objective. To determine the optimal cutoff of the homeostasis model assessment-insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) for diagnosis of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) in adolescents and examine whether insulin resistance (IR), determined ...
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(CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2016)Objective: To analyse the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in healthy adolescents of low to middle socio-economic status and to study the influence of anthropometric, biological and lifestyle factors on the risk ...
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(Blackwell, 2011)This study aimed to report on a high prevalence of low bone mineral density (BMD) and to explore the relationship between BMD, sex and body composition among a cohort of Chilean adolescents.
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, Chile, 2021)Background: Weight regain (WR) after bariatric surgery is common. Several factors involved in WR have been identified, but there has been little research on specific eating habits such as eating snacks rather than regular ...
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(Wiley, 2015)Background: Obesity is associated with a mild chronic inflammatory response, which has been suggested to be pivotal in the development of cardiometabolic alterations of obesity. However, little is known about the involvement ...
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(Elsevier, 2014)Purpose: Studies report an association between neighborhood risk and both obesity and cardiometabolic risk factors (CMR) among adolescents. Here we describe the effect of perceived neighborhood risk on adiposity and CMR ...
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(2011)The mild chronic inflammatory state associated with obesity may be an important link between adiposity and insulin resistance (IR). In a sample of 137 overweight and obese Chilean adolescents, we assessed associations between ...
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(Nature Research, 2021)Obesity is the most important predisposing factor for cardiovascular disease and type-2 diabetes. We explored the relationship between the age at onset of obesity and selected cardiometabolic parameters in young adults. ...
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Satiety responsiveness and eating behavior among Chilean adolescents and the role of breastfeeding (Macmillan, 2013)OBJECTIVE: To determine patterns of satiety responsiveness and its relationship to eating in the absence of hunger (EAH), in a cohort of adolescents. We also assessed whether sex, body mass index and duration of breastfeeding, ...
