Metabolic syndrome in blacks: Are the criteria right?

Current Diabetes Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 199-208

  Osei, Kwame ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacks; Blood pressure and obesity; HDL cholesterol; Insulin resistance; Metabolic syndrome; Triglycerides

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY COMPOSITION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NEGRO; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77956392230     PISSN: 15344827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11892-010-0116-4     Document Type: Review

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