Cardiovascular Death and the Metabolic Syndrome
Open Access
- 1 June 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Diabetes Association in Diabetes Care
- Vol. 29 (6) , 1363-1369
- https://doi.org/10.2337/dc05-2385
Abstract
OBJECTIVE— Levels of adiposity-signaling hormones and inflammatory markers are less favorable in individuals with the metabolic syndrome; their role in the association between the metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular mortality remains unclear.Keywords
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