Ghrelin Gene Variants Influence on Metabolic Syndrome Components in Aged Spanish Population

• Mireia Mora,

  Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Victoria Adam,

  Affiliation Genotyping and Genetic Diagnosis Unit, Research Foundation, Hospital Clinic of Valencia INCLIVA, Valencia, Spain

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• Elisabet Palomera,

  Affiliation Research Unit and Ciberhep, Hospital of Mataró, Mataró, Spain

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• Sebastian Blesa,

  Affiliation Genotyping and Genetic Diagnosis Unit, Research Foundation, Hospital Clinic of Valencia INCLIVA, Valencia, Spain

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• Gonzalo Díaz,

  Affiliations Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Hospital Clínico of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

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• Xavier Buquet,

  Affiliation Biochemistry Service, Hospital of Mataró, Mataró, Spain

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• Mateu Serra-Prat,

  Affiliation Research Unit and Ciberhep, Hospital of Mataró, Mataró, Spain

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• Juan Carlos Martín-Escudero,

  Affiliation Internal Medicine Department, Hospital Río Hortega, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

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• Ana Palanca,

  Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain

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• Javier Felipe Chaves,

  Affiliations Genotyping and Genetic Diagnosis Unit, Research Foundation, Hospital Clinic of Valencia INCLIVA, Valencia, Spain, CIBER Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Diseases (CIBERDEM), Barcelona, Spain

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• Manuel Puig-Domingo ,

  * E-mail: mpuigd@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Enfermedades Raras (CIBER-ER), Madrid, Spain

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• The Mataró Aging Study Group

  ¶Membership of The Mataró Aging Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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