Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, September 18th, 2006
Study 1: Study suggests modification of the NCEP ATP III definitions of the metabolic syndrome for use in Asians to identify individuals at risk of ischemic heart disease.
According to recent research from Singapore, "The association between the metabolic syndrome (MS) to ischemic heart disease (IHD) has not been established prospectively in Asian populations. We carried out registry linkage, using unique national identity numbers, to identify incident IHD events in subjects without diabetes mellitus or IHD from two cross-sectional studies of Chinese, Malays and...
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