Alcohol consumption in the severely obese: Relationship with the metabolic syndrome

Obesity Research

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 245-252

  Dixon, John B ^a   Dixon, Maureen E ^a   O'Brien, Paul E ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Diabetes; Insulin resistance; Metabolic syndrome; Vascular risk; Wine

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEER; BLOOD; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; MORBID OBESITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; RISK FACTOR; WINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BEER; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OBESITY, MORBID; RISK FACTORS; TRIGLYCERIDES; WINE;

EID: 0036549173     PISSN: 10717323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2002.33     Document Type: Article

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