TY - BOOK AU - Ahmed Sayed Ismail Aly AU - Maha Mohsen Mohamed Amin , AU - Nermin Salah Eldin Metwally , AU - Wafaa Abdelsamie Kandeel , TI - Vitamin D in Egyptian obese children and its relation to insulin resistance and sensitivity / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ahmed Sayed Ismail Aly , KW - Insulin KW - Obese children KW - Vitamin D N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics; Issued also as CD N2 - It is now known that insufficient serum 25 (OH) D alters metabolic functions causing perturbation of many cellular functions including that of the pancreas. Recently there has been a resurgence of hypovitaminosis D3 in many populations. In parallel there has been a worldwide increase in the prevalence of obesity. Links between obesity and hypovitaminosis D has been reported UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -