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Prevalence, associated factors and heritabilities of metabolic syndrome and its individual components in African Americans: the Jackson Heart Study

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  • Rumana J Khan Cardiovascular Section, Metabolic, Cardiovascular and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Samson Y Gebreab Cardiovascular Section, Metabolic, Cardiovascular and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mario Sims Division of Hypertension, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Pia Riestra Cardiovascular Section, Metabolic, Cardiovascular and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ruihua Xu Cardiovascular Section, Metabolic, Cardiovascular and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sharon K Davis Cardiovascular Section, Metabolic, Cardiovascular and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Rumana J Khan; rumana.khan{at}nih.gov
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Khan RJ, Gebreab SY, Sims M, et al
Prevalence, associated factors and heritabilities of metabolic syndrome and its individual components in African Americans: the Jackson Heart Study
BMJ Open 2015;5:e008675. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008675

Publication history

  • Received May 4, 2015
  • Revised August 12, 2015
  • Accepted September 2, 2015
  • First published November 1, 2015.
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October 25, 2017
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