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?
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52289#.VI-PYMnQrzE Author(s) Bernard Kianu Phanzu 1* , Benjamin Longo-Mbenza 2 , Jean Bosco Kasiam Lasion’kin 3 , Jody Mbuilu Pukuta 4 , Eleuthère Kintoki Vita 1 , Nanoue Masolo Muze Kianu 5 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Internal Medicine, Unit of Cardiology, University of Kinshasa Hospital, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo . 2 Faculty of Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, South Africa . 3 Department of Internal Medicine, Unit of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Kinshasa Hospital, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo . 4 Department of Family Medicine, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa . 5 Faculty of Medicine, University of Technology, B...