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Decreasing Prevalence of the Full Metabolic Syndrome but a Persistently High Prevalence of Dyslipidemia among Adult Arabs
A decade has passed since metabolic syndrome (MetS) was documented to be highly prevalent in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. No follow-up epidemiologic study was done. This study aims to fill this gap. In this cross-sectional, observational study, a total of 2850 randomly selected Saudi adults aged 18–...
Autores principales: | Al-Daghri, Nasser M., Al-Attas, Omar S., Alokail, Majed S., Alkharfy, Khalid M., Sabico, Shaun Louie B., Chrousos, George P. |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2921394/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20730053 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012159 |
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