Risk factors associated with the metabolic syndrome in Cali, Colombia (2013): A case-control study

• Published in: Biomédica
• Main Authors: Sayda Milena Pico, Gustavo Bergonzoli, Adolfo Contreras
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud 2019
• Subjects: Metabolic syndrome; risk factors; case-control studies; logistic models; regression analysis; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; The Waist
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v39i1.3935; https://doaj.org/article/d44e91706cc049288009a8362b893c97

Introduction: In 2016, the World Health Organization reported that more than 2 billion adults were overweight, of whom 600 million were obese, 347 million had diabetes mellitus type II, and people with hypertension had increased from 600 million in 1980 to 1 billion in 2010. Additionally, 20% of the...