[PDF] Top 20 The prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in Portugal: the PORMETS study

... cross-sectional study. A sample of adults registered at primary health care centres throughout mainland Portugal was ...selected. In each of the eighteen Portuguese mainland ... See full document

... The prevalence of CVD has increased since the advent of industrial revolution especially in western societies ( Gottlieb et ...). The less active lifestyle being promoted ... See full document

... The study showed a MetS prevalence of 54.8% in elderly individuals ...this prevalence was significantly higher among women. A Brazilian study of 243 elderly ... See full document

... cross-sectional study (PORMETS study) conducted in Portugal between 2007 and ...sample of non-institutionalized adults, comprising 3,956 participants, aged 18 years and older, ... See full document

... The Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) is defined as a pattern of metabolic disturbances, which include central obesity, in- sulin resistance and hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, and ... See full document

... from the initial database were selected since they reported the diagnosis of the prevalence of the fibro- myalgia syndrome representing 2% of the ... See full document

... FGM/C prevalence tends to be reduced outside the communities of origin, due to a higher access to information and education resources, lower peer pressure, and the knowledge of a ... See full document

... Although the consensus dichotomized definition pre- viously described remains useful for clinical practice, it loses statistical power and information when performing association ...increases the ... See full document

... loss of 5–10% body weight has been shown to improve insulin sensitivity and other cardio- vascular risk factors across a wide range of patient groups ...maintenance of the weight losses, which ... See full document

... 38% prevalence of posterior crossbite (unilateral and bilateral) was found in the DS group: 30% presented it unilaterally and 8% bilaterally, the last being found only in ... See full document

... characteristics of the Ansung-Ansan cohort study have been published previously ...cohort study that is part of the Korean Health and Genome Study (KHGS), a com- ... See full document

... $70.00). The prevalence of METS in the entire sample was ...when the 45–49-year-old group was compared to the older age groups (Table ...(29.9%) of these women had ... See full document

... al. Prevalence of metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular changes in patients with chronic plaque psoriasis and their correlation with disease severity: A hospital- based cross-sectional ... See full document

... total of 1455 patients with type 2 diabetes were identified in a multicentric study that began recruiting pa- tients in Southern Brazil in ...2002. The objective of that ... See full document

... Although the presence of MetS seems to be beneficial to the decrease of HBV activity, the causal relationship is ...undetermined. In fact, we found that MetS was also related to ... See full document

... The prevalence comparison for common risk factors of metabolic syndrome among the three groups showed that, except for HDL-c, which was similarly diminished in around ... See full document

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... prevalent in women than in men ...34.7% of women and 15.1% of men were in the over 30 kg/m² BMI range, which characterized the ...32.6% of women and 45.5% of ... See full document

... located in the center of the country, with a population of 2,434,033 inhabitants, ...68.9% of whom are 18 years or older [22]. The population has a diverse background, ... See full document

... reviewed the studies by title, abstract and full text where relevant for ...report the prevalence of MS overall and by different subgroups of interest, according to any of ... See full document