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Prevalencia de comorbilidades metabólicas en pacientes con obesidad en la edad escolar y la adolescencia

Introduction: Although the International Diabetes Federation refers to the impossibility of establishing a diagnosis for metabolic syndrome in school-age patients, epidemiological data seem to suggest that such metabolic syndrome and/or its components are already present at early ages. Objective: To dete...

Interacción entre leptina y grelina como parte del control tónico de la ingesta de alimentos

Food intake is regulated by an acute control system that conveys information between the stomach and hypothalamic centres of feeding regulation mainly via neural vagal afferent fibers for satiety and via hormonal signal transmission by ghrelin for recurrence of appetite and hunger. This acute system is u...