Publications by authors named "Eva Vitariusova"
Thyroid hormone levels and BMI-SDS changes in adolescents with obesity.
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)
January 2024
Background: Thyroid hormones play an important role in energy metabolism and weight control, explained mostly by inducing thermogenesis and increasing basal metabolic rate. It has recently been shown that FT4 levels are associated with food preferences, which might also play a role in modulating body weight. The aim of this longitudinal follow-up study was to analyze the relationship of thyroid hormones levels (FT4, TSH) at baseline with weight/BMI-SDS changes in children and adolescents with obesity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Thyroid hormones profoundly affect energy metabolism but their interrelation with food preference, which might contribute to childhood obesity development, are much less understood. In this study, we investigated if thyroid hormone levels are associated with specific modulation of food preference and potentially linked to the level of obesity in children and adolescents.
Methods: Interrelations between food preference and peripheral thyroid activity were examined in a population of 99 non-obese and 101 obese children and adolescents (12.
Article Synopsis
- - The article investigates the link between arterial stiffness and obesity, highlighting arterial stiffness as an early sign of cardiovascular risk.
- - Researchers evaluated 144 obese patients and 66 non-obese controls using the continuous metabolic syndrome (cMetS) score and the ambulatory arterial stiffness index (AASI).
- - Findings show that obesity significantly increases arterial stiffness, and the cMetS score is a better predictor of increased stiffness compared to individual factors like body mass index.
The prevalence of melanocortin-4 receptor gene mutations in Slovak obese children and adolescents.
J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab
January 2016
Melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) deficiency is the most frequent monogenic form of obesity. The contribution of MC4R mutations to the Slovak population has not been investigated as yet. We screened the coding sequence of the MC4R gene in a cohort of 210 Slovak obese children and adolescents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: Obesity is the major determinant of metabolic syndrome. Being born small for gestational age (SGA) may be co-responsible. We aimed at evaluating the association between 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim Of The Study: In 2006-2008 a survey analyzing food patterns, intake of main food items and leisure time activities of 5,410 schoolchildren was carried out.
Methods: The study was performed in 13 randomly selected regions of Slovakia. 5,410 elementary school children (2,848 girls and 2,562 boys) aged from 6.