Ethnic Differences in the Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome: Results from a Multi-Ethnic Population-Based Survey in Malaysia

• Sanjay Rampal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sanjay Rampal, Sanjiv Mahadeva

  Affiliations Julius Centre University of Malaya, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Department of Epidemiology and Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Sanjiv Mahadeva ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sanjay Rampal, Sanjiv Mahadeva

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Eliseo Guallar,

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Area of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Population Genetics, National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), Madrid, Spain

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• Awang Bulgiba,

  Affiliation Julius Centre University of Malaya, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Rosmawati Mohamed,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Ramlee Rahmat,

  Affiliation Ministry of Health, Putrajaya, Malaysia

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• Mohamad Taha Arif,

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Sarawak Malaysia, Sarawak, Malaysia

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• Lekhraj Rampal

  * E-mail: rampal@medic.upm.edu.my

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

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