Diagnostic criteria for metabolic syndrome: Caucasians versus African-Americans

Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 149-155

  Zeno, Stacey A ^a   Deuster, Patricia A ^a   Davis, Jennifer L ^a   Kim Dorner, Su Jong ^a   Remaley, Alan T ^b   Poth, Merrily ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; INSULIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TRIGLYCERIDES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950597971     PISSN: 15404196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/met.2009.0053     Document Type: Article

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