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Data on Diabetes Reported by Researchers at University of Salamanca

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, April 2nd, 2012

2012 APR 2 -- According to the authors of recent research published in the journal BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, "Our aim was to analyze the relationship between abdominal obesity and general obesity, with subclinical atherosclerosis, arterial stiffness and wave reflection in healthy, diabetics and hypertensive subjects. A cross-sectional descriptive study was made of 305 individuals (diabetics 32.8%, hypertensive subjects 37.0% and healthy individuals 30.2%)."

"Body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), body fat percentage (BFP) and waist/height ratio (WHtR). Arterial stiffness was assessed according to pulse wave velocity (PWV), intima-media...

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