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Heart Attack
Reports from University of Catania advance knowledge in heart attack
July 6th, 2009
According to recent research from Catania, Italy, "This study aimed at verifying the International Diabetes Federation (IDF)-indicated criteria in the elderly, characterized by a decrease of several normal values, the neglected evaluation of those values with aging, and an eventual decision of an obligatory consideration of the visceral obesity as a sign of the metabolic syndrome (MS), the relative prevalence of Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) and stroke. The study involved 3038 elderly persons (65-84 years), covered by the Italian Longitudinal Study on Aging (ILSA): they were investigated for the diagnosis of MS, for the prevalence of AMI and stroke at the baseline, and after 3...
Source: Obesity & Diabetes Week (2009-07-06)
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