Browsing by Subject "Metabolic syndrome, Waist circumference, Visceral adiposity, Cardiovascular risk, Kenya, Africa"

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    • Metabolic syndrome and its predictors in an urban population in Kenya: a cross sectional study 

      Geoffrey Omuse, Daniel Maina, Mariza Hoffman, Jane Mwangi, Caroline Wambua, Elizabeth Kagotho, Angela Amayo, Peter Ojwang, Zulfiqarali Premji, Kiyoshi Ichihara, Rajiv Erasmus (BioMed Central, 2017)
      The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a clustering of interrelated risk factors which doubles the risk of cardio-vascular disease (CVD) in 5–10 years and increases the risk of type 2 diabetes 5 fold. The identification ...