Low‐grade inflammation is an underlying feature of obesity and identifying inflammatory markers is crucial to understanding this disease. Therefore, the purpose of this study was twofold: (i) to perform a global microarray analysis and (ii) to investigate the role of lactoferrin (LTF), one of the most altered genes, in relation to obesity in Latino youth.

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拉丁美洲青年中的基因表达谱和循环乳铁蛋白水平与肥胖相关表型的关联。

低度炎症是肥胖症的基本特征，识别炎症标志物对于了解这种疾病至关重要。因此，本研究的目的是双重的：（i）进行全局微阵列分析，和（ii）研究乳铁蛋白（LTF），其是最易改变的基因之一，与拉丁美洲青年肥胖有关。