Prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its components among Chinese professional athletes of strength sports with different body weight categories.

Prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its components among Chinese professional athletes of strength sports with different body weight categories.

BACKGROUND: There is an increasing concern on cardiometabolic health in young professional athletes at heavy-weight class. OBJECTIVE: Our cross-sectional survey aimed to evaluate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and clustering of metabolic risk factors in a population of young and active profess...

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Main Authors: Jianjun Guo, Xi Zhang, Ling Wang, Yan Guo, Minhao Xie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3821854?pdf=render

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