Acanthosis nigricans as a composite marker of cardiometabolic risk and its complex association with obesity and insulin resistance in Mexican American children.
Juan Carlos López-AlvarengaGeetha ChittoorSolomon F D PaulSobha PuppalaVidya S FarookSharon P FowlerRoy G ResendezJoselin Hernandez-RuizAlvaro Diaz-BadilloDavid SalazarDoreen D GarzaDonna M LehmanSrinivas MummidiRector AryaChristopher P JenkinsonJane L LynchRalph A DeFronzoJohn BlangeroDaniel E HaleRavindranath DuggiralaPublished in: PloS one (2020)
Our study suggests that obesity explains the association of IR with AN, but no causal relationship between IR and AN in Mexican American children.