The metabolic syndrome : does it exist in Africans in transition in the Northwest Province / Annamarie Kruger

Background: The term 'metabolic syndrome' is used to describe the clustering in a person of risk factors 'which is associated with the chronic diseases of lifestyle. Considerable evidence exists that insulin resistance is the underlying common factor in the development of the metabol...

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Main Author: Kruger, Annamarie
Published: Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10394/6380