Metabolic Syndrome
Open Access
- 1 November 2006
- journal article
- Published by American Diabetes Association in Diabetes Care
- Vol. 29 (11), 2471-2476
- https://doi.org/10.2337/dc06-0282
Abstract
OBJECTIVE—Little is known about the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome among elderly people in Italy, its association with all-cause mortality, and whether measurement of serum C-reactive protein (CRP) and interleukin (IL)-6 affects this association.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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