The metabolic syndrome: Prevalence and associated risk factor findings in the US population from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 427-436

  Park, Yong Woo ^a   Zhu, Shankuan ^b   Palaniappan, Latha ^c   Heshka, Stanley ^b   Carnethon, Mercedes R ^c   Heymsfield, Steven B ^b,d  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INCOME; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEGRO; OBESITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037463608     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.163.4.427     Document Type: Article

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