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Article: New findings from Federal University in the area of hyperglycemia described.
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- Gastroenterology Week
- Article date:
- March 9, 2009
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"To determine the best cut-offs of body mass index for identifying alterations of blood lipids and glucose in adolescents. A probabilistic sample including 577 adolescent students aged 12-19 years in 2003 ( 210 males and 367 females) from state public schools in the city of Niteroi, Southeastern Brazil, was studied," researchers in Brazil report (see also Hyperglycemia).
"The Receiver Operating Characteristic curve was used to identify the best age-adjusted BMI cut-off for predicting high levels of serum total cholesterol (>= 150mg/dL), LDL-C (>= 100mg/dL), serum triglycerides (>= 100mg/dL), plasma glucose (> 100mg/dL) and low levels of HDL-C (
<45mg/dL). Four references were used to calculate sensitivity and specificity of BMI cut-offs: one Brazilian, one international and two American. The most prevalent metabolic alterations (> 50%) were: high ...
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