Clinical Medicine & Research Volume 12, Number 1-2: 21-26 ©2014 Marshfield Clinic clinmedres.org

Original Research

Factors Associated with Early Platelet Activation in Obese Children Anel Gómez García, PhD; Guillermina García Núñez, MSC; Martha Eva Viveros Sandoval, PhD; Sergio Gutierrez Castellanos, PhD; and Cleto Alvarez Aguilar, MSC

Objective: To investigate the factors associated with platelet activation in obese children. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Department of Pediatrics of Regional Hospital N° 1 of Mexican Institute of Social Security in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. Participants: 79 obese and 64 non-obese children between the ages of 5 and 10 years. Main Outcomes Measures: Obese children (body mass index [BMI] >85 in growth curves for Centers for Disease Control/National Center for Health Statistics), and the control group of 64 nonobese children (percentile

Factors associated with early platelet activation in obese children.

To investigate the factors associated with platelet activation in obese children...
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