Metabolic Abnormalities Are Common among South American Hispanics Subjects with Normal Weight or Excess Body Weight: The CRONICAS Cohort Study.

Metabolic Abnormalities Are Common among South American Hispanics Subjects with Normal Weight or Excess Body Weight: The CRONICAS Cohort Study.

OBJECTIVE:We aimed to characterize metabolic status by body mass index (BMI) status. METHODS:The CRONICAS longitudinal study was performed in an age-and-sex stratified random sample of participants aged 35 years or older in four Peruvian settings: Lima (Peru's capital, costal urban, highly urba...

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Main Authors: Catherine P Benziger, Antonio Bernabé-Ortiz, Robert H Gilman, William Checkley, Liam Smeeth, Germán Málaga, J Jaime Miranda, CRONICAS Cohort Study group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4658165?pdf=render

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