High plasma homocysteine increases risk of metabolic syndrome in 6 to 8 year old children in rural Nepal

Nutrients

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1649-1661

  Yakub, Mohsin ^a   Schulze, Kerry J ^a   Khatry, Subarna K ^b   StewartParul, Christine P ^c   Christian, Parul ^a   West Jr , Keith P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Nepal Nutrition Intervention Project Sarlahi   (Nepal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Homocysteine; Metabolic syndrome; Nepal

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; HOMOCYSTEINE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRACE ELEMENT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NEPAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NEPAL; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; TRIGLYCERIDES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84899152068     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu6041649     Document Type: Article

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