Metabolic Abnormalities Are Common among South American Hispanics Subjects with Normal Weight or Excess Body Weight: The CRONICAS Cohort Study

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 10; no. 11; p. e0138968
• Main Authors: Benziger, Catherine P., Bernabé-Ortiz, Antonio, Gilman, Robert H., Checkley, William, Smeeth, Liam, Málaga, Germán, Miranda, J. Jaime
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 23.11.2015; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Abnormalities; Adult; Age; Aged; Baseline studies; Behavior; Body mass; Body Mass Index; Body Size; Body Weight; C-reactive protein; Capital; Cardiovascular diseases; Cholesterol; Chronic illnesses; Cohort analysis; Cohort Studies; Correlation analysis; Demography; Exercise; Female; Females; Health aspects; Health risk assessment; Health risks; High altitude; High-altitude environments; Hispanic or Latino - statistics & numerical data; Humans; Insulin; Latin Americans; Longitudinal studies; Male; Metabolic disorders; Metabolic syndrome; Metabolic Syndrome - epidemiology; Metabolism; Middle Aged; Mortality; Multivariate Analysis; Obesity; Obesity - epidemiology; Obesity - metabolism; Overweight; Peru - epidemiology; Physiological aspects; Prevalence; Risk analysis; Risk Factors; Socio-economic aspects; Urban areas; Peru; United States > US; Baltimore Maryland

We aimed to characterize metabolic status by body mass index (BMI) status. The CRONICAS longitudinal study was performed in an age-and-sex stratified random sample of participants aged 35 years or older in four Peruvian settings: Lima (Peru's capital, costal urban, highly urbanized), urban and...