Cardiometabolic disease in South Asians: A global health concern in an expanding population

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• 作者：A. Das^a ; B. Ambale-Venkatesh^b ; J.A.C. Lima^b ; J.E. Freedman^c ; A. Spahillari^a ; R. Das^d ; S. Das^a ; R.V. Shah^a ; ¹ ; ^{rshah1@bidmc.harvard.edu} ; V.L. Murthy^e ; ¹ ; ^{vlmurthy@med.umich.edu}
• 关键词：Cardiovascular disease ; Metabolic syndrome ; Diabetes ; Adipokines ; Genetics and epigenetics ; Subclinical cardiovascular disease
• 刊名：Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：27
• 期：1
• 页码：32-40
• 全文大小：352 K
• 卷排序：27

文摘

South Asians are at higher risk of cardiometabolic disease than other races. Risk factors are similar among native South Asians and emigrants. Rural and urban areas of India have similar cardiometabolic risk profiles. Genetic and epigenetic mediators of excess cardiometabolic risk in South Asians is an active area of investigation.