Paola Amador

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile — Chile

Neuroscience · Life Sciences

5h-index225citations5works0.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Regulation of Appetite and Obesity(4), Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques(4), Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases(3), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet(1), Eating Disorders and Behaviors(1)

Publications5 total

Melanocortin-4 receptor polymorphism rs17782313: Association with obesity and eating in the absence of hunger in Chilean children
Nutrition·2013· 33 citedOpen Access
Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in obese Chilean children and association with gene variants of the leptin-melanocortin system
Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism·2013· 13 citedOpen Access
Association between eating behavior scores and obesity in Chilean children
Nutrition Journal·2011· 135 citedOpen Access
Melanocortin-3 receptor gene variants: Association with childhood obesity and eating behavior in Chilean families
Nutrition·2010· 30 citedOpen Access
Obesity and eating behaviour in a three-generation chilean family with carriers of the Thr150Ile mutation in the melanocortin-4 receptor gene
Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry·2008· 14 cited

Frequent Co-authors

José Luis Santos(5), Ana María Obregón(4), Gerardo Weisstaub(4), Macarena Valladares(4), Judith Ho-Urriola(2), Andrea González(2), Susan V. Smalley(2), Patricia Domínguez-Vásquez(2), María Isabel Hodgson(2), Luis Rodrigo Cataldo(1), María Isabel Hodgson(1), Iris Paola Guzmán‐Guzmán(1), Raquel Burrows(1), Cecilia Albala(1), J. Alfredo Martínéz(1), Amelia Martí(1), José Suazo(1)