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Metabolic syndrome among Jaffna Tamil community, Sri Lanka

AIM: The prevalence and associated risk factors of metabolic syndrome (MS) among adults over 18 years old in Jaffna district. MATERIALS AND METHODS: It was community-based cross-sectional descriptive study. Multistage stratified cluster sampling technique was employed. An interviewer administered qu...

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Autores principales:	Amarasinghe, Sivarathy, Sandrasegarampillai, Balakumar, Arasaratnam, Vasanthy
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
Materias:	Original Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4566350/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26425479 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.163204

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