Metabolic disease risk in children by salivary biomarker analysis.

The study of obesity-related metabolic syndrome or Type 2 diabetes (T2D) in children is particularly difficult because of fear of needles. We tested a non-invasive approach to study inflammatory parameters in an at-risk population of children to provide proof-of-principle for future investigations o...

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Main Authors: J Max Goodson, Alpdogan Kantarci, Mor-Li Hartman, Gerald V Denis, Danielle Stephens, Hatice Hasturk, Tina Yaskell, Jorel Vargas, Xiaoshan Wang, Maryann Cugini, Roula Barake, Osama Alsmadi, Sabiha Al-Mutawa, Jitendra Ariga, Pramod Soparkar, Jawad Behbehani, Kazem Behbehani, Francine Welty
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4051609?pdf=render