Ethnicity and the Metabolic Syndrome

The Metabolic Syndrome

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 43-84

  Forouhi, Nita G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'thrifty genotype' hypothesis; Birthweight, ethnicity and insulin resistance association; Coronary heart disease and stroke; Epidemiology of ethnic differences in CVD risk; Insulin mediated foetal growth; Metabolic syndrome and ethnicity; Metabolic syndrome with CHD mortality; Obesity and body fat distribution; Psychosocial stress and socio economic differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889790487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470025131.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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