Prevalence of obesity and metabolic syndrome components in Mexican adults without type 2 diabetes or hypertension Prevalencia de obesidad y componentes del síndrome metabólico en adultos mexicanos sin diabetes tipo 2 o hipertensión arterial

• Main Authors: Rosalba Rojas-Martínez (Author), Carlos A Aguilar-Salinas (Author), Aída Jiménez-Corona (Author), Francisco J Gómez-Pérez (Author), Simón Barquera (Author), Eduardo Lazcano-Ponce (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2012-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: To describe the number of Mexican adults with undiagnosed diabetes and arterial hypertension and their association with obesity. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study included a sub-sample of 6 613 subjects aged 20 years or more who participated in the 2006 National Health and Nutrition Survey...