Metabolic Syndrome More Predominant In East Germany Than West Germany
More people suffer from being overweight and have high blood pressure and metabolic disturbances in East Germany than in West Germany. This is the result of a study with almost 36 000 patients, published in the current edition of the Deutsches Ärzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2008; 105[12]: 207-13).
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Filed under: Hypertension on April 6th, 2008