Unravelling the effects of age, period and cohort on metabolic syndrome components in a Taiwanese population using partial least squares regression

Unravelling the effects of age, period and cohort on metabolic syndrome components in a Taiwanese population using partial least squares regression

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>We investigate whether the changing environment caused by rapid economic growth yielded differential effects for successive Taiwanese generations on 8 components of metabolic syndrome (MetS): body mass index (BMI), systolic blood pre...

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Main Authors: Burley Victoria, Chien Kuo-Liong, Tu Yu-Kang, Gilthorpe Mark S
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-05-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Subjects:
Metabolic syndrome
obesity
age-period-cohort analysis
partial least squares
Taiwan
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/11/82

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