Physical activity and the metabolic syndrome in a tri-ethnic sample of women

Obesity Research

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1030-1037

  Irwin, Melinda L ^a   Ainsworth, Barbara E ^b   Mayer Davis, Elizabeth J ^b   Addy, Cheryl L ^b   Pate, Russell R ^b   Durstine, J Larry ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Fitness; Insulin resistance syndrome; Race; Syndrome X

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INSULIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INSULIN; LOGISTIC MODELS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; NEW MEXICO; OBESITY; SOUTH CAROLINA; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 0036777035     PISSN: 10717323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2002.140     Document Type: Article

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