Associations of plasma glucose levels and traits of metabolic syndrome with carotid intima media thickness in nondiabetic elderly subjects: Are they mediated by insulin resistance?

Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 41-45

  Viscogliosi, Giovanni ^a   Andreozzi, Paola ^a   Marigliano, Vincenzo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PREDIABETIC STATE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84872869870     PISSN: 15404196     EISSN: 15578518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/met.2012.0087     Document Type: Article

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