Prevalence and features of the metabolic syndrome in unselected Bulgarian population

Endokrinologya

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 68-77

  Borissova, Anna Maria ^a,b   Kovatcheva, Russanka ^a   Shinkov, Alexander ^a   Atanassova, Iliana ^a   Vukov, Mirtsho ^a   Aslanova, Nina ^a   Vlahov, Jordan ^a   Dakovska, Lilia ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ALEXANDROVSKA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Metabolic syndrome; Predictors; Sex

Indexed keywords

TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BULGARIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 54049135265     PISSN: 13108131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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