Comparison of obesity and its relationship to some metabolic risk factors of atherosclerosis in Arabs and South Asians in Kuwait

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 275-280

  Babusik, Pavel ^a,c   Duris, Ivan ^b  

^a Al Rashid Hospital   (Kuwait)

^b Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^c NONE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Arabic and South Asian ethnicity; Kuwait; Metabolic cardiovascular risk factors; Obesity

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; AGE; ARAB; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; KUWAIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADULT; ARABS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ASIA, WESTERN; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KUWAIT; LIPIDS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 77953186313     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000312713     Document Type: Article

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