PMID: 6107836Aug 1, 1980Paper

Influence of hypocaloric diet on blood coagulation of overweight children (author's transl)

Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde : Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kinderheilkunde
A M Mingers, J Ströder

Abstract

32 overweight otherwise healthy children aged 8-15 years received a hypocaloric mixed diet for some weeks. Their blood coagulation was studied with regard to possible changes. Before dieting the levels of fibrinogen were markedly increased, also maximal amplitude (ma) of the thrombelastograms. The other values were within the normal range. During the diet statistically significant changes were found in the values of the following coagulatin parameters: ma of the thrombelastograms as well as the activities of the coagulation factors I, II, VII, VIII, IX, and X.

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