Prevalence of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome in the High Cardiovascular Risk Setting of Rural Western Honduras
Bibliographic Data
The overall prevalence of obesity and MS is severely underestimated in rural Honduras. The most remarkable parameter for MS was high triglycerides (71%). Sixty-nine percent of the population has above-normal Body Mass Index (BMI). Public health efforts to control comorbidities and tackle risk factors in this population should take utmost priority
Environmental health · Metabolic syndrome · Obesity · Population · Rural population · Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity · Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors · Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins · Medicine · Gerontology · Internal Medicine
Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017
Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (Dalys) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (Hale) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017
Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults
Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease
The prevalence of metabolic syndrome in Latin America
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