A cross-sectional survey of adrenal steroid hormones among overweight/obese boys according to puberty stage

• Main Authors: Bingyan Cao (Author), Chunxiu Gong (Author), Di Wu (Author), Xuejun Liang (Author), Wenjing Li (Author), Min Liu (Author), Chang Su (Author), Miao Qin (Author), Xi Meng (Author), Liya Wei (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Obesity is associated with many chronic diseases including cortisol rhythm disorder and low testosterone. Furthermore, studies on obese children are quite limited and no concordance results have been obtained, especially for boys in puberty. Moreover, the sample sizes of previous...