Metabolic Abnormalities Are Common among South American Hispanics Subjects with Normal Weight or Excess Body Weight: The CRONICAS Cohort Study

• Catherine P. Benziger,

  Affiliations CRONICAS Center of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, Division of Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• Antonio Bernabé-Ortiz,

  Affiliation CRONICAS Center of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

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• Robert H. Gilman,

  Affiliations Program in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Asociación Benéfica PRISMA, Lima, Peru

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• William Checkley,

  Affiliations Program in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Liam Smeeth,

  Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Germán Málaga,

  Affiliations CRONICAS Center of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, Facultad de Medicina “Alberto Hurtado”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

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• J. Jaime Miranda ,

  * E-mail: jaime.miranda@upch.pe

  Affiliations CRONICAS Center of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, Facultad de Medicina “Alberto Hurtado”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

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• CRONICAS Cohort Study group

  ¶Membership of the CRONICAS Cohort Study group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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