Increasing number of components of the metabolic syndrome and cardiac structural and functional abnormalities – cross-sectional study of the general population

BACKGROUND: We aimed to assess whether we could identify a graded association between increasing number of components of the metabolic syndrome and cardiac structural and functional abnormalities independently of predicted risk of coronary heart disease by the Framingham risk score. METHODS: We cond...

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Autores principales: Azevedo, Ana, Bettencourt, Paulo, Almeida, Pedro B, Santos, Ana C, Abreu-Lima, Cassiano, Hense, Hans-Werner, Barros, Henrique
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1894986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17555566
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-7-17

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1894986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17555566
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-7-17

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