Insulin Resistance and Hypertension in Non-obese Africans in Tanzania

Hypertension

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 114-118

  Mgonda, Yasin M ^a   Ramaiya, Kaushik L ^a   Swai, Andrew ^a   McLarty, Donald G ^a   Alberti, K George M M ^a  

^a MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANZANIA;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; TANZANIA;

EID: 0031890235     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.31.1.114     Document Type: Article

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