The metabolic syndrome in Asian Indians: Impact of nutritional and socio-economic transition in India

Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 14-23

  Wasir, Jasjeet Singh ^a   Misra, Anoop ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SATURATED FATTY ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CALORIC INTAKE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DIETARY FIBER; DIETARY INTAKE; EPIDEMIC; FAT INTAKE; HUMAN; INDIA; INDIAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INFANT; LIFESTYLE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SITTING; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

EID: 5044242246     PISSN: 15404196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/met.2004.2.14     Document Type: Review

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