Metabolic syndrome in a sub-Saharan African setting: Central obesity may be the key determinant
- 4 October 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Atherosclerosis
- Vol. 193 (1) , 70-76
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2006.08.037
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