Marwa Mohammed Salah <br/><br/>
Parameters of atherosclerosis in children with obesity /  
 مقاييس تصلب الشرايين فى الأطفال الذين يعانون من البدانة 
Marwa Mohammed Salah ; Supervised Nabil Abdelaziz Mohsen , Shereen Abdelghaffar Taha , Khaled Helmy Elkaffas 
 - Cairo :   Marwa Mohammed Salah ,   2010 
 - 157P. :   charts , facsimiles ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics 
<br/><br/> Obesity is considered one of the most important chronic diseases in children which lead to atherosclerosis . We stadied parameters of atherosclerosis in children with obesity we measured cIMT and FUD% and we pound that cIMT increased in obese children when compared to controls and was directly correlated with LDL and BMI . We found that there was no statistically significant difference between cases and controls in respect to FMD% 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Children  Endothelial dysfunction  Obesity