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Obesity and Diabetes
New obesity and diabetes findings from University of Mississippi Medical Center described
August 5th, 2008
"Health of African Americans is seriously threatened by unremitting epidemics of diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, the role of metabolic syndrome in the African-American population has not been investigated widely," scientists in the United States report. "This study examined the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and assessed its cross-sectional relationship to CVD in the Jackson Heart Study (JHS) cohort. A total of 5,302 participants aged >= 21 years who were recruited at baseline during 2000-2004 were analyzed for this study. Adjusted odds ratios (ORs) were estimated in a logistic regression analysis for coronary heart disease (CHD) and...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-08-05)
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