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Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in adolescents living in Mthatha, South Africa

OBJECTIVE: Metabolic syndrome (MetS), defined as the clustering of three of five risk factors (hypertension, obesity, triglyceridemia, dyslipidemia and hyperglycemia), is being increasingly mentioned among children and adolescents despite there being no consensus on how it should be defined in this...

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Autores principales:	Sekokotla, Morongwe Annah, Goswami, Nandu, Sewani-Rusike, Constance Rufaro, Iputo, Jehu Erapu, Nkeh-Chungag, Benedicta Ngwenchi
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Dove Medical Press 2017
Materias:	Original Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5304970/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28223816 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/TCRM.S124291

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