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Sonia Caprio

Researcher at Yale University

Publications -  283
Citations -  28860

Sonia Caprio is an academic researcher from Yale University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Insulin resistance & Insulin. The author has an hindex of 74, co-authored 257 publications receiving 26000 citations. Previous affiliations of Sonia Caprio include University of Verona & University of Naples Federico II.

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Obesity and the metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents.

TL;DR: The prevalence of the metabolic syndrome is high among obese children and adolescents, and it increases with worsening obesity, particularly in severely obese youngsters.
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Prevalence of Impaired Glucose Tolerance among Children and Adolescents with Marked Obesity

TL;DR: Insulin resistance was greater in the affected cohort and was the best predictor of impaired glucose tolerance and Overt type 2 diabetes was linked to beta-cell failure.
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The metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents

TL;DR: As the programme grows, these actions will pose new problems for the sus tainability of large-scale CHW programmes, and might again lay bare the tensions between the diff erent expec tations and descriptions of the CHW.