ea0058p031 | Miscellaneous Endocrinology | BSPED2018
Baioumi Alaa
, Mohamed Noha
, El Sawy Nahla
, Abd Elaziz Eman
Introduction: One tenth of children worldwide are obese and disturbance in pubertal progression is one of the unpleasant health consequences of adolescent obesity. Data on pubertal hormones in obese adolescents are scarce and contradictory.Methods: This study was a cross-sectional, case-control study conducted on 120 participants; 60 randomly chosen obese adolescent males and 60 age and sex matched controls. All participants had measurements of their wei...