Screening for the metabolic syndrome using simple anthropometric measurements in south Asian and white Europeans: A population-based screening study. The Leicester Ethnic Atherosclerosis and Diabetes Risk (LEADER) Study

Primary Care Diabetes

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-32

  Khunti, Kamlesh ^a   Taub, Nick ^a   Tringham, Jennifer ^b   Jarvis, Janet ^b   Farooqi, Azhar ^a   Skinner, T Chas ^b   Davies, Melanie J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Ethnicity; Metabolic syndrome; Screening; Waist circumference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ETHNICITY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLE SIZE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 77949293355     PISSN: 17519918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcd.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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