Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Volume 72, Issue 1 , Pages 75-80 , April 2006

The metabolic syndrome in Spanish migrants to Brazil: Unexpected results

  • Judith M.D.C. Pousada

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Medical School, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador-Bahia, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Maria M.S. Britto

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Medical School, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador-Bahia, Brazil
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  • Thomaz Cruz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Medical School, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador-Bahia, Brazil
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  • Maria de Lourdes Lima

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health, Bahia, Brazil
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  • Ines Lessa

      Affiliations

    • Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
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  • Denise C. Lemaire

      Affiliations

    • Department of Life Science, State University of Bahia, Brazil
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  • Rejane H. Carvalho

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Medical School, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador-Bahia, Brazil
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  • Maria T. Martinez-Larrad

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario de San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
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  • Elisabeth Coll Torres

      Affiliations

    • Department of Preventive Medicine, Hospital Universitario de San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
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  • Manuel Serrano-Rios

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario de San Carlos, Madrid, Spain

Received 2 May 2005 ,Revised 18 August 2005 ,Accepted 1 September 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2005.09.006

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Volume 72, Issue 1 , Pages 75-80 , April 2006

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