Central versus peripheral cardiovascular risk in metabolic syndrome
Individuals with metabolic syndrome (MetS; i.e. 3 of 5 of the following risk factors (RFs): elevated blood pressure, waist circumference, triglycerides, blood glucose or reduced HDL) are thought to be prone to serious cardiovascular disease and there is debate as to whether the disease begins in the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2012-02-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Physiology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2012.00038/full |