Childhood Age and Associations Between Childhood Metabolic Syndrome and Adult Risk for Metabolic Syndrome, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Carotid Intima Media Thickness: The International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort Consortium

Childhood Age and Associations Between Childhood Metabolic Syndrome and Adult Risk for Metabolic Syndrome, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Carotid Intima Media Thickness: The International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort Consortium

BackgroundThere is paucity of knowledge concerning the specific age in youth when the associations of metabolic syndrome (MetS) begin to be operative. Thus, we investigated the relation of age to the associations of childhood MetS with adult MetS, type 2 diabetes mellitus and high carotid intima‐med...

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Main Authors: Juha Koskinen, Costan G. Magnussen, Alan Sinaiko, Jessica Woo, Elaine Urbina, David R. Jacobs, Julia Steinberger, Ronald Prineas, Matthew A. Sabin, Trudy Burns, Gerald Berenson, Lydia Bazzano, Alison Venn, Jorma S.A. Viikari, Nina Hutri‐Kähönen, Olli Raitakari, Terence Dwyer, Markus Juonala
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-08-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
carotid intima‐media thickness
metabolic syndrome
obesity
type 2 diabetes mellitus
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.117.005632

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