Serum erythrocyte sedimentation rate is higher among ethnic South Asian compared to ethnic Chinese ischemic stroke patients. Is this attributable to metabolic syndrome or central obesity?

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 126-129

  De Silva, Deidre Anne ^a   Woon, Fung Peng ^b   Chen, Christopher ^c   Chang, Hui Meng ^d   Wong, Meng Cheong ^d  

^a NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d National Medical Research Council   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Central obesity; Chinese; Inflammation; Ischemic stroke; Metabolic syndrome; Serum erythrocyte sedimentation rate; South Asian

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHINA; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SOUTH ASIA;

AGED; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE;

EID: 58149165065     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2008.09.015     Document Type: Article

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