Metabolic Syndrome and Ethnicity

The Metabolic Syndrome: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 19-44

  Tillin, Therese ^a   Forouhi, Nita G ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease Insulin resistance Dyslipidemia; Metabolic syndrome Ethnicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878405921     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444347319.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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