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Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in scholars from Bucaramanga, Colombia: a population-based study

BACKGROUND: Obesity and metabolic syndrome are strongly associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases, thus the increasing trend in their prevalence among children and adolescents from developing countries requires a further understanding of their epidemiology and determinants...

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Autores principales: Villa-Roel, Cristina, Buitrago, Adriana, Rodríguez, Diana C, Cano, Diana J, Martínez, María P, Camacho, Paul A, Ruiz, Álvaro J, Durán, Álvaro E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2675526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19383169
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-9-28