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Central obesity is important but not essential component of the metabolic syndrome for predicting diabetes mellitus in a hypertensive family-based cohort. Results from the Stanford Asia-pacific program for hypertension and insulin resistance (SAPPHIRe) Taiwan follow-up study

BACKGROUND: Metabolic abnormalities have a cumulative effect on development of diabetes, but only central obesity has been defined as the essential criterion of metabolic syndrome (MetS) by the International Diabetes Federation. We hypothesized that central obesity contributes to a higher risk of ne...

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Autores principales: Lee, I-Te, Chiu, Yen-Feng, Hwu, Chii-Min, He, Chih-Tsueng, Chiang, Fu-Tien, Lin, Yu-Chun, Assimes, Themistocles, Curb, J David, Sheu, Wayne H-H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3476431/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22537054
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2840-11-43