Conference
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