Cardiac autonomic dysfunction in obese normotensive children and adolescents
OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that obese normotensive children and adolescents present impaired cardiac autonomic control compared to non-obese normotensive ones.METHODS:For this cross-sectional study, 66 children and adolescents were divided into the following groups: Obese (n=31, 12±3 years old...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Sociedade de Pediatria de São Paulo
2014-06-01
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Series: | Revista Paulista de Pediatria |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-05822014000200244&lng=en&tlng=en |