Areca nut chewing is associated with metabolic syndrome [7]

Diabetes Care

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1714-

  Chung, Fu Mei ^a,b   Chang, Dao Ming ^a,c   Chen, Miao Pei ^a   Tsai, Jack C R ^a,b   Yang, Yi Hsin ^b   Shieh, Tien Yu ^b   Shin, Shyi Jang ^b   Chen, Tony Hsiu Hsi ^c   Tai, Tong Yuan ^d   Lee, Yau Jiunn ^a  

^a PINGTUNG CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d Ren Ji Hospital   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ABORIGINE; ADULT; AGE; AGED; BETEL NUT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTICATION; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; TAIWAN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARECA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPTIN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MASTICATION; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; TAIWAN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 33746404782     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 01495992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc06-0628     Document Type: Letter

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