Are Metabolic Risk Factors One Unified Syndrome? Modeling the Structure of the Metabolic Syndrome X
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Metabolic syndrome and the associated risk factors in Iranian adults: A systematic review
Background: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a complex clustering cardiovascular risk factors such as abdominal obesity, hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidemia. It has been a growing health problem in Iranian adults in recent decade. The objective of this article was to review the prevalence of MetS and the corresponding risk factors among Iranian adults.Methods: We conducted a systematic revi...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0002-9262
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwg045