Browsing Brage NIH by Author "El-Naaman, Bianca"
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Dietary arginine and linear growth: the Copenhagen School Child Intervention Study
van Vught, Anneke J. A. H.; Dagnelie, Peter C.; Arts, Ilja C. W.; Froberg, Karsten; Andersen, Lars Bo; El-Naaman, Bianca; Bugge, Anna; Nielsen, Birgit Marie; Heitmann, Berit L. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-10-10)The amino acid arginine is a well-known growth hormone (GH) stimulator and GH is an important modulator of linear growth. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of dietary arginine on growth velocity ... -
Intervention effects on dietary intake among children by maternal education level: results of the Copenhagen School Child Intervention Study (CoSCIS)
Jensen, Britt Wang; von Kappelgaard, Lene Mia; Nielsen, Birgit Marie; Husby, Ida; Bugge, Anna; El-Naaman, Bianca; Andersen, Lars Bo; Trolle, Ellen; Heitmann, Berit Lilienthal (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-03)Dietary intake among Danish children, in general, does not comply with the official recommendations. The objectives of the present study were to evaluate the 3-year effect of a multi-component school-based intervention on ... -
Sex differences in the association between level of childhood interleukin-6 and insulin resistance in adolescence
Bugge, Anna; El-Naaman, Bianca; McMurray, Robert G.; Froberg, Karsten; Nielsen, Claus Henrik; Müller, Klaus; Andersen, Lars Bo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-01-05)The purpose of this study was to determine whether levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) in childhood are related to insulin resistance in adolescence. Further, to explore how fatness and cardiorespiratory fitness ( V O 2 p e a ... -
Tracking of clustered cardiovascular disease risk factors from childhood to adolescence
Bugge, Anna; El-Naaman, Bianca; McMurray, Robert G.; Froberg, Karsten; Andersen, Lars Bo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-01-09)Clustering of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors has been found in children as young as 9 y of age. However, the stability of this clustering over the course of childhood has yet to be determined. The purpose of ...