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Elevated fasting insulin predicts the future incidence of metabolic syndrome: a 5-year follow-up study

BACKGROUND: There is controversy about the specific pathophysiology of metabolic syndrome (MS) but several authors have argued that hyperinsulinemia is a key feature of the cluster. We aimed to assess whether the baseline insulin levels could predict the development of MS in a well characterised coh...

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Autores principales: Sung, Ki-Chul C, Seo, Mi-Hae H, Rhee, Eun-Jung J, Wilson, Andrew M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3275515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22129309
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2840-10-108