Fat Oxidation in Black and White Youth: A Metabolic Phenotype Potentially Predisposing Black Girls to Obesity | Zendy

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Fat Oxidation in Black and White Youth: A Metabolic Phenotype Potentially Predisposing Black Girls to Obesity

Author(s) -

SoJung Lee,

Silva Arslanian

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

the journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.206

H-Index - 353

eISSN - 1945-7197

pISSN - 0021-972X

DOI - 10.1210/jc.2008-1024

Subject(s) - medicine , endocrinology , obesity , basal metabolic rate , negroid , biology , epidemiology

The prevalence of obesity is higher in Blacks with racial divergence in adiposity in girls starting during adolescence. Our hypothesis is that in Black children, puberty associated increase in fat oxidation is diminished and could play a role in predisposing to fat accretion triggered during puberty. Thus, we examined the relationships between race, pubertal development, and postabsorptive fat oxidation in youth.

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