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Monitoring and Prevalence Rates of Metabolic Syndrome in Military Veterans with Serious Mental Illness

BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality among patients with serious mental illness (SMI) and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome—a constellation of cardiovascular risk factors—is significantly higher in these patients than in the general population. Metabolic monitoring...

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Autores principales: Khatana, Sameed Ahmed M., Kane, Joshua, Taveira, Tracey H., Bauer, Mark S., Wu, Wen-Chih
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3082569/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21541294
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019298