Metabolic syndrome linked to liver disease in obese teenaged boys

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 15:28 in Health & Medicine

Researchers studying a large sample of adolescent American boys have found an association between metabolic syndrome, which is a complication of obesity, and elevated liver enzymes that mark potentially serious liver disease.

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