Donald R. Dengel, Ph.D., Kinesiology professor and director of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology, is a co-author of an article recently published in the Journal of Pediatrics. The article entitled “Relations among adiposity and insulin resistance with flow-mediated dilation, carotid intima-media thickness, and arterial stiffness in children” examines the associations of adiposity and insulin resistance with measures of vascular structure and function in children.  A Ph.D. advisee of Dengel,  Aaron Kelly, associate professor in the U of M School of Medicine and 2004 School of Kinesiology graduate, was also a co-author on the article.