World Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases

Vol.4 No.13(2014), Paper ID 52289, 13 pages

DOI:10.4236/wjcd.2014.413076

 

What Are the Determinants of Insulin Resistance (IR) and How Effective Is the Sub-Saharan Africa-Specific Threshold of Abdominal Obesity (AO-SSA) Identifying IR in Congolese Black Hypertensive Patients?

 

Bernard Kianu Phanzu, Benjamin Longo-Mbenza, Jean Bosco Kasiam Lasion’kin, Jody Mbuilu Pukuta, Eleuthère Kintoki Vita, Nanoue Masolo Muze Kianu

 

Department of Internal Medicine, Unit of Cardiology, University of Kinshasa Hospital, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Faculty of Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, South Africa
Department of Internal Medicine, Unit of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Kinshasa Hospital, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Department of Family Medicine, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Department of Internal Medicine, Unit of Cardiology, University of Kinshasa Hospital, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Faculty of Medicine, University of Technology, Bel Campus, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

 

Copyright © 2014 Bernard Kianu Phanzu, Benjamin Longo-Mbenza, Jean Bosco Kasiam Lasion’kin, Jody Mbuilu Pukuta, Eleuthère Kintoki Vita, Nanoue Masolo Muze Kianu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

 

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Phanzu, B. , Longo-Mbenza, B. , Lasion’kin, J. , Pukuta, J. , Vita, E. and Kianu, N. (2014) What Are the Determinants of Insulin Resistance (IR) and How Effective Is the Sub-Saharan Africa-Specific Threshold of Abdominal Obesity (AO-SSA) Identifying IR in Congolese Black Hypertensive Patients?. World Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases, 4, 642-654. doi: 10.4236/wjcd.2014.413076.

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