A Single Factor Underlies the Metabolic Syndrome: A confirmatory factor analysis
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A single factor underlies the metabolic syndrome: a confirmatory factor analysis.
OBJECTIVE Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to test the hypothesis that the components of the metabolic syndrome are manifestations of a single common factor. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Three different datasets were used to test and validate the model. The Spanish and Mauritian studies included 207 men and 203 women and 1,411 men and 1,650 women, respectively. A third analytical da...
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عنوان ژورنال: Diabetes Care
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0149-5992,1935-5548
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.29.01.06.dc05-0862