Acculturation and psychosocial stress show differential relationships to insulin resistance (HOMA) and body fat distribution in two groups of blacks living in the US Virgin Islands

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 560-569

  Tull, Eugene S ^a   Thurland, Anne ^a   LaPorte, Ronald E ^a   Chambers, Earle C ^a  

^a 512 Parran Hall ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MODEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY COMPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES;

EID: 0041693836     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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