An urban-rural comparison of the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in Eastern China

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 131-136

  Weng, Xiaoping ^a   Liu, Youxue ^a   Ma, Jiemin ^b   Wang, Wenjuan ^c   Yang, Gonghuan ^b   Caballero, Benjamin ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

Central obesity; China; Metabolic syndrome; Rural; Urban

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CHINA; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SAMPLE SIZE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXERCISE; HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARD; STATISTICS; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADULT; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; RURAL HEALTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 33947491186     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980007226023     Document Type: Article

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