Metabolic syndrome in Yup'ik eskimos: The Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR) study

Obesity

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2535-2540

  Boyer, Bert B ^a   Mohatt, Gerald V ^a   Plaetke, Rosemarie ^a   Herron, Johanna ^a   Stanhope, Kimber L ^b   Stephensen, Charles ^b,c   Havel, Peter J ^b   Bersamin, Andrea ^d   Goropashnaya, Anna ^d   Hopkins, Scarlett ^d   Hubalik, Nick ^d   Lardon, Cecile ^d   Luick, Bret ^d   Orr, Eliza ^d   Ruppert, Elizabeth ^d   Wolsko, Chris ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d Center for Alaska Native Health Research ^*

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Glucose; Insulin; Triglyceride; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; ESKIMO; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALASKA; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INUITS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; TRIGLYCERIDES; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 38049070718     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2007.302     Document Type: Article

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