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Metabolic Syndrome

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2006

Year

Giovanni Ravaglia, Paola Forti, Fabiola Maioli, L Bastagli, Martina Chiappelli, Fausta Montesi, Luigi Bolondi, Christopher Patterson
Diabetes Care

Abstract

Metabolic syndrome by NCEP criteria is highly prevalent in the Italian elderly population. It is not itself associated with mortality but may improve the usefulness of IL-6 as a mortality predictor in older age.

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