Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Volume 89, Issue 1 , Pages 88-93 , July 2010

Latent class analysis of the metabolic syndrome

  • Edward J. Boyko

      Affiliations

    • VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, USA
    • Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: 1100 Olive Way, Suite 1400, Seattle, WA 98101, USA. Tel.: +1 206 2774618; fax: +1 206 7642563.
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  • Rebecca A. Doheny

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    • ,
  • Marguerite J. McNeely

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    • ,
  • Steven E. Kahn

      Affiliations

    • VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, USA
    • Department of Medicine, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    • ,
  • Donna L. Leonetti

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    • ,
  • Wilfred Y. Fujimoto

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Received 26 December 2009 ,Revised 15 February 2010 ,Accepted 16 February 2010.

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☆ Grant Support: National Institutes of Health Grants DK-31170, HL-49293, DK-02654, DK-17047, DK-35816, and RR-00037.

PII: S0168-8227(10)00089-6

doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2010.02.013

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Volume 89, Issue 1 , Pages 88-93 , July 2010

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