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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 20, 1010-1014, Copyright © 1967 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc.

Plasma Levels of Free Fatty Acids in Adolescents

FELIX P. HEALD M.D.1, GEORGE ARNOLD M.S.1, WILLIAM SEABOLD M.D.1, and DONALD MORRISON PH.D.1

1 From the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia and the Department of Pediatrics, Georgetown University School of Medicine

In boys, the plasma level of free fatty acids decreases with age prior to puberty but remains constant beginning in midpuberty. In girls, a steady trend of decreasing FFA with age was not found in the premenarchial period. The premenarchial girls had significantly higher values of plasma FFA than postmenarchial girls. During puberty a significant sex difference in FFA was found, with girls having the higher value. There are no significant correlations of FFA with either body weight or skin-fold thickness.






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