Metabolic syndrome and obesity among workers at Kanye Seventh-day Adventist Hospital, Botswana

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 331-334

  Garrido, Roberto A ^a   Semeraro, María B ^a   Temesgen, Samuel M ^b   Simi, Marcelo R ^a  

^a River Plate Adventist University   (Argentina)

^b Kanye Seventh day Adventist Hospital   (Botswana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; LIPID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; AGED; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; BOTSWANA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; RELIGION; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; BOTSWANA; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, RELIGIOUS; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PREVALENCE; PROTESTANTISM; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651207657     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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