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Metabolic syndrome and its predictors in an urban population in Kenya: A cross sectional study

BACKGROUND: The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a clustering of interrelated risk factors which doubles the risk of cardio-vascular disease (CVD) in 5–10 years and increases the risk of type 2 diabetes 5 fold. The identification of modifiable CVD risk factors and predictors of MetS in an otherwise heal...

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Autores principales:	Omuse, Geoffrey, Maina, Daniel, Hoffman, Mariza, Mwangi, Jane, Wambua, Caroline, Kagotho, Elizabeth, Amayo, Angela, Ojwang, Peter, Premji, Zulfiqarali, Ichihara, Kiyoshi, Erasmus, Rajiv
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2017
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5496352/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28676116 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12902-017-0188-0

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