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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.

Diabetes Care. 2007 Feb;30(2):343-7.PMID: 17259505 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

The impact of central obesity as a prerequisite for the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome.

Khoo CM, Liew CF, Chew SK, Tai ES.

Obesity (Silver Spring). 2007 Jan;15(1):262-9.PMID: 17228055 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

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.

Diabetes Care. 2009 Jun;32(6):1092-7. Epub 2009 Mar 11.PMID: 19279302 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

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.

Atherosclerosis. 2006 Jun;186(2):367-73. Epub 2005 Aug 19.PMID: 16112123 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

The metabolic syndrome and mortality: the Singapore Cardiovascular Cohort Study.

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

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Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in HIV-infected patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy using International Diabetes Foundation and Adult Treatment Panel III criteria: associations with insulin resistance, disturbed body fat compartmentalization, elevated C-reactive protein, and [corrected] hypoadiponectinemia.

Samaras K, Wand H, Law M, Emery S, Cooper D, Carr A.

Diabetes Care. 2007 Jan;30(1):113-9. Erratum in: Diabetes Care. 2007 Feb;30(2):455. PMID: 17192343 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Ethnicity modifies the association between diabetes mellitus and ischaemic heart disease in Chinese, Malays and Asian Indians living in Singapore.

Yeo KK, Tai BC, Heng D, Lee JM, Ma S, Hughes K, Chew SK, Chia KS, Tai ES.

Diabetologia. 2006 Dec;49(12):2866-73. Epub 2006 Oct 5.PMID: 17021918 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Age-specific prevalence of the metabolic syndrome defined by the International Diabetes Federation and the National Cholesterol Education Program: the Norwegian HUNT 2 study.

Hildrum B, Mykletun A, Hole T, Midthjell K, Dahl AA.

BMC Public Health. 2007 Aug 29;7:220.PMID: 17727697 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

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.

Diabetes Care. 2004 May;27(5):1182-6.PMID: 15111542 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

The metabolic syndrome is a risk indicator of microvascular and macrovascular complications in diabetes: results from Metascreen, a multicenter diabetes clinic-based survey.

Metascreen Writing Committee, Bonadonna RC, Cucinotta D, Fedele D, Riccardi G, Tiengo A.

Diabetes Care. 2006 Dec;29(12):2701-7.PMID: 17130208 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Incidence of ischaemic heart disease and stroke in Chinese, Malays and Indians in Singapore: Singapore Cardiovascular Cohort Study.

Heng DM, Lee J, Chew SK, Tan BY, Hughes K, Chia KS.

Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2000 Mar;29(2):231-6.PMID: 10895345 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

[Association of metabolic syndrome with ischemic heart disease among middle-aged Kaunas population]

Cerniauskiene LR, Reklaitiene R, Luksiene DI, Domarkiene S, Tamosiūnas A, Margeviciene L.

Medicina (Kaunas). 2005;41(5):435-41. Lithuanian. PMID: 15947528 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Prevalence of vascular disease in metabolic syndrome using three proposed definitions.

Athyros VG, Ganotakis ES, Elisaf MS, Liberopoulos EN, Goudevenos IA, Karagiannis A; GREECE-METS Collaborative Group.

Int J Cardiol. 2007 Apr 25;117(2):204-10. Epub 2006 Jul 18.PMID: 16854482 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Comparison of definitions of the metabolic syndrome in adult Asian Indians.

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

J Assoc Physicians India. 2008 Mar;56:158-64.PMID: 18697631 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

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

Misra KB, Endemann SW, Ayer M.

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Risk factors and incident coronary heart disease in Chinese, Malay and Asian Indian males: the Singapore Cardiovascular Cohort Study.

Lee J, Heng D, Chia KS, Chew SK, Tan BY, Hughes K.

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Epidemiology of metabolic syndrome in Asia.

Pan WH, Yeh WT, Weng LC.

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Metabolic Syndrome and the Risk of Ischemic Heart Disease and Stroke among Middle-Aged Japanese.

Chei CL, Yamagishi K, Tanigawa T, Kitamura A, Imano H, Kiyama M, Sato S, Iso H.

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Metabolic syndrome in patients with ischemic heart disease.

Yasmin S, Mallick NH, Naveed T, Ali M, Noman A, Shakoor T.

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Comparison of the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome by WHO, AHA/NHLBI, and IDF definitions in a German population with type 2 diabetes: the Diabetes in Germany (DIG) Study.

Koehler C, Ott P, Benke I, Hanefeld M; DIG Study Group.

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