Obesity
Studies from the United States and Scotland describe new findings in obesity research
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, October 16th, 2006
Study 1: Metabolic abnormalities and the metabolic syndrome phenotype are increasingly prevalent in U.S. adolescents leading to higher overweight rates.
"Understanding of C-reactive protein (CRP) in adult metabolic syndrome is increasing; however, this relationship in children is less clear. We compared the prevalence of metabolic abnormalities and metabolic syndrome in fasting 12- to 19-year-olds from the 1999-2000 and 1988-1994 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). In the more recent dataset we explored the relationship between metabolic...
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