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Volume 22, Issue 2 , Pages 141-148 , February 2012

Racial/ethnic discrepancies in the metabolic syndrome begin in childhood and persist after adjustment for environmental factors

S.E. Walker
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, P.O. Box 800386, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
M.J. Gurka
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, P.O. Box 800386, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA
M.N. Oliver
- Department of Family Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Center for Health Disparities, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA
D.W. Johns
- Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA
M.D. DeBoer
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, P.O. Box 800386, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 434 924 9144; fax: +1 434 924 9181.