Gender-specific association between the metabolic syndrome and arterial stiffness in 8,300 subjects

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 346, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 289-294

  Weng, Chunyan ^a   Yuan, Hong ^a   Yang, Kan ^a   Tang, Xiaohong ^a   Huang, Zhijun ^a   Huang, Lihua ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Chen, Fangping ^a   Chen, Zhiheng ^a   Yang, Pingting ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; Brachial ankle pulse wave velocity; Metabolic syndrome

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; PULSE WAVE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84885018900     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: 15382990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e3182732e97     Document Type: Article

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