Browsing by Author "Gahagan, Sheila"
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Khuc, Kim; Blanco, Estela; Burrows, Raquel; Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Castillo, Marcela; Lozoff, Betsy; Gahagan, Sheila (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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Burrows, Raquel; Correa Burrows, Paulina; Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Blanco, Estela; Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Gahagan, Sheila (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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Burrows, Raquel; Correa Burrows, Paulina; Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Blanco, Estela; Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Gahagan, Sheila (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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Blanco, Estela; Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Burrows, Raquel; Martínez, Suzanna M.; Gahagan, Sheila (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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Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Quintanilla, Cristina; Burrows, Raquel; Blanco, Estela; Cifuentes, Mariana; Gahagan, Sheila (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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Martinez, Suzanna M.; Blanco, Estela; Delva, Jorge; Burrows, Raquel; Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Lozoff, Betsy; Gahagan, Sheila (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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Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Gahagan, Sheila; Díaz Bustos, Erik; Blanco, Estela; Leiva, Laura; Lera Marques, Lydia; Burrows, Raquel (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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Correa Burrows, María Paulina; Rogan Castillo, Jose Antonio; Blanco, Estela; East, Patricia; Lozoff, Betsy; Gahagan, Sheila; Burrows Argote, Raquel del Carmen (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 Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Hoyos, V.; Martínez, S. M.; Lozoff, B.; Castillo Altmann, Marcela; Burrows, Raquel; Blanco, Estela; Gahagan, Sheila (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, ...