Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Volume 88, Issue 1 , Pages 14-21, April 2010

Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome among extremely obese adolescents in Italy and Germany

  • Claudio L. Lafortuna

      Affiliations

    • Istituto di Bioimmagini e Fisiologia Molecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, via Cervi, 93, I-20090 Segrate, Milano, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +39 02 21717207; fax: +39 02 21717558.
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  • Fulvio Adorni

      Affiliations

    • Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Segrate, Milano, Italy
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  • Fiorenza Agosti

      Affiliations

    • Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Laboratorio Sperimentale di Ricerche Auxo-endocrinologiche, Milano, Italy
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  • Alessandra De Col

      Affiliations

    • Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Laboratorio Sperimentale di Ricerche Auxo-endocrinologiche, Milano, Italy
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  • Kolja Sievert

      Affiliations

    • Adipositas Zentrum Insula, Bischofswiesen, Germany
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  • Wolfgang Siegfried

      Affiliations

    • Adipositas Zentrum Insula, Bischofswiesen, Germany
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  • Alessandro Sartorio

      Affiliations

    • Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Laboratorio Sperimentale di Ricerche Auxo-endocrinologiche, Milano, Italy
    • Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Divisione di Auxologia, Piancavallo (VB), Italy

Received 22 October 2009; received in revised form 22 December 2009; accepted 4 January 2010. published online 22 January 2010.

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PII: S0168-8227(10)00009-4

doi:10.1016/j.diabres.2010.01.008

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Volume 88, Issue 1 , Pages 14-21, April 2010

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