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Areca nut chewing and metabolic syndrome: evidence of a harmful relationship

BACKGROUND: There is some evidence which suggests that areca nut chewing has a relationship with metabolic syndrome. Areca nut chewing is continue to increase and so is the metabolic syndrome which is a major cause of cardiovascular mortality in developing countries. The aim of this study was to det...

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Autores principales: Shafique, Kashif, Zafar, Mubashir, Ahmed, Zeeshan, Khan, Naveed Ali, Mughal, Muhammad Akbar, Imtiaz, Fauzia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3663704/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23688186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-12-67