Metabolic syndrome according to different definitions in a rapidly developing country of the African region
AIMS: We examined, in a country of the African region, i) the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) according to three definitions (ATP, WHO and IDF); ii) the distribution of the MetS criteria; iii) the level of agreement between these three definitions and iv) we also examined these issues up...
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BioMed Central
2008
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2556312/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18801172 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2840-7-27 |