Ethnic disparities of the metabolic syndrome in population-based samples of German and Iranian adolescents

Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 189-192

  Schwandt, Peter ^a,b   Kelishadi, Roya ^c   Haas, Gerda Maria ^a  

^a Arteriosklerose Praeventions Institut   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; IRAN; LIPIDS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; POPULATION GROUPS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 77950616397     PISSN: 15404196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/met.2009.0054     Document Type: Article

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