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Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome in Elderly and Agreement among Four Diagnostic Criteria

BACKGROUND: Metabolic syndrome (MS) is an aggregation of risk factors that increase the incidence of cardiovascular events and diabetes mellitus (DM). Population aging is accompanied by higher prevalence of MS, which varies depending on the population studied and the diagnostic criteria used. OBJECT...

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Autores principales: Saad, Maria Auxiliadora Nogueira, Cardoso, Gilberto Perez, Martins, Wolney de Andrade, Velarde, Luis Guillermo Coca, da Cruz, Rubens Antunes
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3987322/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24676226
http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/abc.20140013