Calculated adiposity and lipid indices in healthy Arab children as influenced by vitamin D status
2, Nasser M Al-Daghri 1, Shaun Sabico 2, Yousef Al-Saleh 3, Omar S Al-Attas 2, Abdullah M Alnaami 2, Marwan M AlRehaili 2, Mohammed Al-Harbi 4, Hanan Alfawaz 5, George Chrousos 6, Majed S Alokail . 2016
Both childhood obesity and vitamin D deficiency are common in the Middle East. This study aims to determine whether the associations of vitamin D status to traditional anthropometric parameters hold true for nonconventional measures of adiposity, such as body adiposity index (BAI), a measure of body fat percentage, waist-to-hip ratio, waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), and lipid indices, in apparently healthy Arab children
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Objectives: To assess circulating fetuin A and fetuin B levels in participants with and without Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) and to find out their correlations with other…
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