Alterations of Carbohydrate and Lipoprotein Metabolism in Childhood Obesity -- Impact of Insulin Resistance and Acanthosis Nigricans.

The article presents a study which determined the prevalence of alterations of glucose and lipoprotein metabolism in Caucasian European obese children and evaluated the impact of acanthosis nigricans (AN) on childhood obesity. The study revealed that AN can be considered as a physical marker of insulin resistance which causes development alterations of glucose metabolism and dyslipidemia in obese children.