Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in indigenous women over 45 years

Metabolic syndrome postmenopausal native women

Authors

  • Manuel Villalta
    meme22_44@hotmail.com
    Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala
June 30, 2016

Background: the metabolic syndrome is a disorder that results from visceral obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and insulin resistance. After menopause, the incidence is secondary to hypoestrogenism. Cardiovascular disease and metabol