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Hypertriglyceridemic-waist phenotype predicts diabetes: a cohort study in Chinese urban adults.
BMC public health - 15 Dec 2012
Zhang Meilin, Gao Yuxia, Chang Hong, Wang Xuan, Liu Dongmei, Zhu Zongjian, Huang Guowei
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Hypertriglycedemic-waist (HTGW) phenotype is a simple and inexpensive screening parameter to identify people at increased risk for cardiovascular disease. We evaluated whether the HTGW phenotype predicts prediabetes and diabetes in Chinese urban adults. METHODS: Two thousand nine hundred and eight (2908) subjects including 1957 men and 951 women, aged 20 years and older, free of prediabetes and...
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