The metabolic syndrome predicts cardiovascular events: Results of a 13-year follow-up in initially healthy 58-year-old men

Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 394-399

  Schmidt, Caroline ^a   Bergström, Göran M L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; LEISURE; LOW RISK POPULATION; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING HABIT;

AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84869816650     PISSN: 15404196     EISSN: 15578518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/met.2012.0048     Document Type: Article

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