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Age- and sex-specific prevalence and ten-year risk for cardiovascular disease of all 16 risk factor combinations of the metabolic syndrome - A cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Based on the AHA/NHLBI-definition three out of five cardiometabolic traits must be present for the diagnosis of the metabolic syndrome (MetS), resulting in 16 different combination types. The associated cardiovascular risk may however be different and specific combination may be indicati...

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Autores principales: Moebus, Susanne, Balijepalli, Chakrapani, Lösch, Christian, Göres, Laura, von Stritzky, Bernd, Bramlage, Peter, Wasem, Jürgen, Jöckel, Karl-Heinz
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2929217/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20696055
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2840-9-34