Weight reduction may be beneficial for Japanese men with cardiometabolic risk factors even if they are not abdominally obese

Diabetes Care

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Oda, Eiji ^a  

^a Tachikawa Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

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

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LETTER; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; METABOLIC DISORDER; SCREENING TEST; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADULT; ASIAN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 77958159821     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc10-0697     Document Type: Letter

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