Metabolic syndrome can help identify diabetes risk in Aboriginal Canadians

Monday, March 16, 2009 - 16:42 in Health & Medicine

Metabolic syndrome is the clustering of risk factors associated with diabetes and heart disease, such as obesity, high cholesterol, high glucose and hypertension. Aboriginal Canadians have a 3-5 times higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes compared with non-Aboriginal Canadians.

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