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Vittoria Carlotta Magenes

Researcher at Boston Children's Hospital

Publications -  5
Citations -  108

Vittoria Carlotta Magenes is an academic researcher from Boston Children's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Insulin resistance & Percentile. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 5 publications receiving 6 citations. Previous affiliations of Vittoria Carlotta Magenes include University of Milan.

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COVID-19 Pandemic as Risk Factors for Excessive Weight Gain in Pediatrics: The Role of Changes in Nutrition Behavior. A Narrative Review

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the most up-to-date evidence on the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 in children and adolescents, focusing on the role of excessive weight and weight gain in pediatrics.
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Brown Adipose Tissue: New Challenges for Prevention of Childhood Obesity. A Narrative Review.

TL;DR: A review on factors that may promote browning of white adipose tissue (WAT) from fetal age to adolescence can be found in this paper, where the role of the brown fat tissue (BAT) as a potential target of intervention is discussed.
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Predictive Ability of the Estimate of Fat Mass to Detect Early-Onset Metabolic Syndrome in Prepubertal Children with Obesity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the predictive ability of the estimate of FM (eFM) calculated using the following formula: FM = weight - exp(0.3073 × height2 - 10.6488 × age0.5 + 0.04723×male + 2.8055) (exp = exponential function, score 1 if child was of black (BA), south Asian (SA), other Asian (AO), or other (other) ethnic origin and score 0 if not, ln = natural logarithmic transformation, male = 1, female = 0), to