Cardiovascular disease risk factors in a Nigerian population with impaired fasting blood glucose level and diabetes mellitus

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• 作者：Victor M. Oguoma ; Ezekiel U. Nwose ; Ifeoma I. Ulasi…
• 关键词：Diabetes ; Co ; morbidity ; CVD risk factors ; Impaired fasting glucose ; Nigeria ; Prediabetes
• 刊名：BMC Public Health
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：17
• 期：1
• 全文大小：618KB
• 刊物主题：Public Health; Medicine/Public Health, general; Epidemiology; Environmental Health; Biostatistics; Vaccine;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1471-2458
• 卷排序：17

文摘

BackgroundDiabetes is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and there are reports of increasing prevalence of prediabetes in Nigeria. This study therefore characterised CVDs risk factors in subjects with impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and diabetes.