Inflammation and fatness in adolescents with and without Down syndrome: UP & DOWN study.

A Gutierrez-HervasSonia Gómez-MartinezR Izquierdo-GómezO L VeigaA Perez-BeyJ Castro-PiñeroA Marcos

Published in: Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR (2019)

These findings suggest that abdominal obesity should be controlled in adolescents because of its relationship with acute phase-inflammatory biomarkers but especially in DS adolescents who may show a peculiar metabolic status according to their relationship between adiposity and inflammatory biomarkers.

Keyphrases

young adults
physical activity
oxidative stress
insulin resistance
metabolic syndrome
type diabetes
weight gain
weight loss
adipose tissue