TY - BOOK AU - Eman Ali Moustafa Hassan AU - Amany Ibrahiem Attia , AU - Ayat Ali Mohammad , AU - Ghada Mohammad Anwar , TI - Serum visfatin concentration in obese children and adolescents and its relation to metabolic syndrome risk factors / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Eman Ali Moustafa Hassan , KW - Adolescents KW - Children KW - Obesity N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics; Issued also as CD N2 - We aimed to elucidate the impact of childhood and adolescent obesity on cirulating visfatin levels and analyze the relation of visfatin to metabolic syndrome risk factors . Cross - sectional study was conducted on 42 obese children and adolescents comparing them with 38 healthy weight , sex and age matched control group in The Diabetes Endocrine and Metabolism Pediatric Unit , Cairo University UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -