Insulin Resistance, Cardiovascular Disease, and the Metabolic Syndrome: How well do the emperor's clothes fit?

Diabetes Care

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1011-1012

  Reaven, Gerald M ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SYNDROME DELINEATION;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PRACTICE GUIDELINES;

EID: 1842590296     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.27.4.1011     Document Type: Editorial

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