The TG/HDL-C ratio does not predict insulin resistance in overweight women of African descent: A study of South African, African American and West African women

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 490-494

  Knight, Michael G ^a   Goedecke, Julia H ^b   Ricks, Madia ^a   Evans, Juliet ^b   Levitt, Naomi S ^b   Tulloch Reid, Marshall K ^c   Sumner, Anne E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

African Americans; Africans; Insulin resistance; TG HDL C ratio; Triglyceride

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BLOOD; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; GHANA; NEGRO; NIGERIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SOUTH AFRICA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER CURVE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; NIGERIA; OVERWEIGHT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE; SOUTH AFRICA; TRIGLYCERIDES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860252137     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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