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Epidemiological and economic burden of metabolic syndrome and its consequences in patients with hypertension in Germany, Spain and Italy; a prevalence-based model

BACKGROUND: The presence of metabolic syndrome in patients with hypertension significantly increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and mortality. Our aim is to estimate the epidemiological and economic burden to the health service of metabolic syndrome in patients with hyperten...

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Autores principales: Scholze, Jürgen, Alegria, Eduardo, Ferri, Claudio, Langham, Sue, Stevens, Warren, Jeffries, David, Uhl-Hochgraeber, Kerstin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2940918/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20813031
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-529