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Familial aggregation of metabolic syndrome and its components in a large Chinese population.
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) - 1 Jan 2008
Feng Yan, Zang Tonghua, Xu Xiping, Xu Xin
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the familial aggregation of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its components in the Chinese. METHODS AND PROCEDURES: A total of 17,954 subjects from 5,224 families with multiple siblings aged 25-64 years old (mean age 45.8 years, 51.6% male) were enrolled from a rural area of Anhui Province of China during 2004-2005. Anthropometric measurement, body composition, blood pressure, plasma...
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