Incidence and risk factors for metabolic syndrome among urban, adult Sri Lankans: a prospective, 7-year community cohort, follow-up study

BACKGROUND: The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a clustering of abdominal obesity, diabetes and prediabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure, that confers an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. There is limited data on incidence of MetS from South Asia. This study investigated incidence...

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Autores principales: De Silva, Shamila T., Niriella, Madunil A., Ediriweera, Dileepa S., Kottahachchi, Dulani, Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, de Silva, Arjuna P., Dassanayaka, Anuradha S., Pathmeswaran, Arunasalam, Wickramasinghe, Rajitha, Kato, N., de Silva, H. Janaka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6694684/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31428204
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13098-019-0461-7

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