Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases
Volume 19, Issue 9 , Pages 620-625 , November 2009

Obesity and the metabolic syndrome in a student cohort from Southern Italy

  • D. Noto

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Medicine and Emerging Diseases, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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  • T. Niglio

      Affiliations

    • Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, Italy
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  • A.B. Cefalù

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Medicine and Emerging Diseases, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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  • E. Martino

      Affiliations

    • Centre of Clinic Lipid Research, Department of Paediatrics, University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy
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  • F. Fayer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Medicine and Emerging Diseases, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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  • M. Mina

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Medicine and Emerging Diseases, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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  • V. Valenti

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Medicine and Emerging Diseases, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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  • A. Notarbartolo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Medicine and Emerging Diseases, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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  • M. Averna

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Medicine and Emerging Diseases, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Dept of Clinical Medicine and Emerging Disease, Via del Vespro 141, I-90127 Palermo, Italy. Tel.: +39 091 6552993; fax: +39 091 6552936.
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  • F. Martino

      Affiliations

    • Centre of Clinic Lipid Research, Department of Paediatrics, University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Dept of Paediatrics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, V.le Regina Elena 324, I-00161 Roma, Italy.

Received 22 April 2008 ,Revised 6 November 2008 ,Accepted 2 December 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.numecd.2008.12.003

Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases
Volume 19, Issue 9 , Pages 620-625 , November 2009

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