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August 19, 2010Cardiometabolic Risk, Cardiovascular Disease, News
Screening for cardiovascular risk in asymptomatic patients. J Am Coll Cardiol 2010;55:1169-77

Berger JS, Jordan CO, Lloyd-Jones D, Blumenthal RS. As cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in the Western world, screening for cardiovascular risk must be improved to target asymptomatic individuals as well as high-risk...

August 13, 2010Abdominal Obesity / Body Fat Distribution, Cardiometabolic Risk, News
Measurement site for waist circumference affects its accuracy as an index of visceral and abdominal subcutaneous fat in a Caucasian population. J Nutr 2010;140:954-61

Bosy-Westphal A, Booke CA, Blöcker T, Kossel E, Goele K, Later W, Hitze B, Heller M, Glüer CC, Müller MJ. The aim of this study was to compare the associations between waist circumference (WC) measured at three different sites with total...

August 02, 2010Cardiometabolic Risk, Ethnicity, Lipids/Lipoproteins, News
Triglycerides and small dense low density lipoprotein in the discrimination of coronary heart disease risk in South Asian populations. Atherosclerosis 2010;209:579-84

Patel JV, Caslake MJ, Vyas A, Cruickshank JK, Prabhakaran D, Bhatnagar D, Reddy KS, Lip GY, Mackness MI, Hughes EA, Durrington PN. This paper attempted to determine the contribution of dyslipidemia to the increased coronary heart disease (CHD)...

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