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Metabolic syndrome prevalence in men with chronic spinal cord injury

Abstract

There are no clinically relevant tools to easily identify CVD risk in adults with spinal cord injury (SCI), despite CVD being an established long‐term complication of SCI. Our objectives were to determine prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) in this population using four published definitions and to compare this to prevalence in the general population (GP), and develop a more sensitive definition of MetS for the SCI population. 38 …

Authors

Finnie AK; Buchholz AC; Ginis KM

Volume

21

Pagination

pp. a1056-a1056

Publisher

Wiley

Publication Date

January 2007

DOI

10.1096/fasebj.21.6.a1056-b

Conference proceedings

The FASEB Journal

Issue

6

ISSN

0892-6638