The metabolic syndrome as a cluster of risk factors: Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 484-485

  Ding, Eric L ^a   Smit, Liesbeth A ^b   Hu, Frank B ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NOTE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ABDOMINAL FAT; BLOOD; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIFESTYLE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RISK FACTOR; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ABDOMINAL FAT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIFE STYLE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 77950343931     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.552     Document Type: Note

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