Preclinical Signs Of Liver And Cardiac Damage In Youth With Metabolically Healthy Obese Phenotype

We aimed to evaluate whether the metabolically healthy obese (MHO) phenotype was associated with hepatic steatosis (HS) or left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in young people with overweight (OW), obesity (OB) and morbid obesity (MOB) and whether the prevalence of these comorbidities was affected by OB severity.

Source: Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Diseases : NMCD - September 4, 2018 Category: Nutrition Authors: P. Di Bonito, E. Miraglia del Giudice, C. Chiesa, M.R. Licenziati, M. Manco, F. Franco, G. Tornese, M.G. Baroni, A. Morandi, C. Maffeis, L. Pacifico, G. Valerio, CARITALY Study, Childhood Obesity Study Group of the Italian Society of Pediatric Endocrinolo Source Type: research