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Prevalence and factors associated with metabolic syndrome among Tamils aged over 18 years in Jaffna district, Sri Lanka

BACKGROUND: The aim was to determine the prevalence and factors associated with Metabolic Syndrome (MS) among adults aged over 18 years in Jaffna district, Sri Lanka. METHODS: This study was carried out as a community based cross sectional descriptive study in Jaffna district, Sri Lanka. Multistage...

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Autores principales:	Amarasinghe, Sivarathy, Balakumar, Sandrasegarampillai, Arasaratnam, Vasanthy
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2015
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4511035/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26203430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40200-015-0190-x

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