Metabolic syndrome in Brazilian adolescents: The effect of body weight [1]

Diabetes Care

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Guimarães, Isabel Cristina Britto ^a,b   De Almeida, Alessandro Moura ^a   Guimarães, Armênio Costa ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; BRAZIL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OVERWEIGHT;

EID: 38949180280     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 01495992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc07-0568     Document Type: Letter

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