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Can we apply the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel definition of the metabolic syndrome to Asians?

Tan CE, Ma S, Wai D, Chew SK, Tai ES.

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First nationwide study of the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and optimal cutoff points of waist circumference in the Middle East: the national survey of risk factors for noncommunicable diseases of Iran.

Delavari A, Forouzanfar MH, Alikhani S, Sharifian A, Kelishadi R.

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Measures of obesity and metabolic syndrome in Indian Americans in northern California.

Misra KB, Endemann SW, Ayer M.

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The US National Cholesterol Education Programme Adult Treatment Panel III (NCEP ATP III) prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in a Chinese population.

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Analysis of criteria for metabolic syndrome in a population-based study of Japanese-Brazilians.

Rosenbaum P, Gimeno SG, Sanudo A, Franco LJ, Ferreira SR; Japanese-Brazilian Diabetes Study Group.

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Wasir JS, Misra A, Vikram NK, Pandey RM, Gupta R.

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An evaluation of candidate definitions of the metabolic syndrome in adult Asian Indians.

Misra A, Wasir JS, Pandey RM.

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Prevalence and factor analysis of metabolic syndrome in an urban Korean population.

Oh JY, Hong YS, Sung YA, Barrett-Connor E.

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Geographic variations of the International Diabetes Federation and the National Cholesterol Education Program-Adult Treatment Panel III definitions of the metabolic syndrome in nondiabetic subjects.

Lorenzo C, Serrano-Ríos M, Martínez-Larrad MT, González-Sánchez JL, Seclén S, Villena A, Gonzalez-Villalpando C, Williams K, Haffner SM.

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Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome using the Third Report of the National Cholesterol Educational Program Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (ATP III) and the modified ATP III definitions for Japanese and Mongolians.

Enkhmaa B, Shiwaku K, Anuurad E, Nogi A, Kitajima K, Yamasaki M, Oyunsuren T, Yamane Y.

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An urban-rural comparison of the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in Eastern China.

Weng X, Liu Y, Ma J, Wang W, Yang G, Caballero B.

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Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome among US adults: findings from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Ford ES, Giles WH, Dietz WH.

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Epidemiology of metabolic syndrome in Asia.

Pan WH, Yeh WT, Weng LC.

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Should central obesity be an optional or essential component of the metabolic syndrome? Ischemic heart disease risk in the Singapore Cardiovascular Cohort Study.

Lee J, Ma S, Heng D, Tan CE, Chew SK, Hughes K, Tai ES.

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Metabolic syndrome in young Asian Indian patients with myocardial infarction.

Ranjith N, Pegoraro RJ, Naidoo DP, Esterhuizen TM.

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Modification of the NCEP ATP III definitions of the metabolic syndrome for use in Asians identifies individuals at risk of ischemic heart disease.

Heng D, Ma S, Lee JJ, Tai BC, Mak KH, Hughes K, Chew SK, Chia KS, Tan CE, Tai ES.

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Correspondence between the adult treatment panel III criteria for metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance.

Sierra-Johnson J, Johnson BD, Allison TG, Bailey KR, Schwartz GL, Turner ST.

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The usefulness of the International Diabetes Federation and the National Cholesterol Education Program's Adult Treatment Panel III definitions of the metabolic syndrome in predicting coronary heart disease in subjects with type 2 diabetes.

Tong PC, Kong AP, So WY, Yang X, Ho CS, Ma RC, Ozaki R, Chow CC, Lam CW, Chan JC, Cockram CS.

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The new definition of metabolic syndrome by the international diabetes federation is less likely to identify metabolically abnormal but non-obese individuals than the definition by the revised national cholesterol education program: the Korea NHANES study.

Yoon YS, Lee ES, Park C, Lee S, Oh SW.

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The importance of waist circumference in the definition of metabolic syndrome: prospective analyses of mortality in men.

Katzmarzyk PT, Janssen I, Ross R, Church TS, Blair SN.

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