Metabolic syndrome in Asian Indians: Current issues in definition and risk correlation

Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 137-139

  Misra, Anoop ^a   Wasir, Jasjeet Singh ^a   Vikram, Naval K ^a   Sadikot, Shaukat M ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b JASLOK HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; INDIAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 24644438721     PISSN: 15404196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/met.2005.3.137     Document Type: Article

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