Differences in the triglyceride to HDL-cholesterol ratio between Palestinian and Israeli adults

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Weiss, Ram ^a   Nassar, Hisham ^b   Sinnreich, Ronit ^a   Kark, Jeremy D ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; ISRAELI; MALE; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PALESTINIAN; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRIGLYCERIDE TO HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL RATIO; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ARAB; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; ISRAEL; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; ARABS; BODY MASS INDEX; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; TRIGLYCERIDES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84922122255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116617     Document Type: Article

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