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The hypertriglyceridemic-waist phenotype is associated with the Framingham risk score and subclinical atherosclerosis in Canadian Cree.
Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD - 1 Nov 2015
Poirier J, Kubow S, Noël M, Dupont C, Egeland G M
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: For primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD), Canadian guidelines recommend that asymptomatic Canadians with abdominal obesity undergo Framingham risk score (FRS) assessment, and that in Indigenous Peoples, indicators of metabolic syndrome also be used to identify at-risk individuals. The hypertriglyceridemic-waist phenotype (HTGW) has been proposed to be a surrogate marker of...
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