Serum ferritin contributes to racial or geographic disparities in metabolic syndrome in Taiwan

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1498-1506

  Chang, Jung Su ^a   Lin, Shiue Ming ^b   Chao, Jane C J ^a   Chen, Yi Chun ^a   Wang, Chi Mei ^a   Chou, Ni Hsin ^a   Pan, Wen Harn ^c,d   Bai, Chyi Huey ^b  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Metabolic syndrome; Odds ratio; Serum ferritin; Taiwanese Indigenous

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; IRON;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; RISK; RISK FACTOR; TAIWAN;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FASTING; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; IRON; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; TAIWAN;

EID: 84901854118     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980013001596     Document Type: Article

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