Prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its risk factors in Kerala, South India: Analysis of a community based cross-sectional study

• S. Harikrishnan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: S. Harikrishnan, Smitha Sarma

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: drharikrishnan@outlook.com

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8754-4243

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• Smitha Sarma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: S. Harikrishnan, Smitha Sarma

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• G. Sanjay,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

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• P. Jeemon,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

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• M. N. Krishnan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Government Medical College, Kozhikode, Kerala, India

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• K. Venugopal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Pushpagiri Hospital, Tiruvalla, Kottayam, Kerala, India

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• P. P. Mohanan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Westfort High-tech Hospital, Thrissur, Kerala, India

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• L. Jeyaseelan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

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• K. R. Thankappan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

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• G. Zachariah

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Mother Hospital, Thrissur, Kerala, India

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