The co-existence of elevated high sensitivity C-reactive protein and homocysteine levels is associated with increased risk of metabolic syndrome: A 6-year follow-up study

• Jinkwan Kim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jinkwan Kim, Sangshin Pyo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science, College of Health Science, Jungwon University, Geo-San, Republic of Korea

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• Sangshin Pyo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jinkwan Kim, Sangshin Pyo

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Integrated Biomedical and Life Sciences, College of Health Science, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

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• Dae Wui Yoon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Human Genomic Study, Korea University Ansan Hospital, Korea University, Ansan, Republic of Korea

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• Seungkwan Lee,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Integrated Biomedical and Life Sciences, College of Health Science, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

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• Ja-Yun Lim,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Integrated Biomedical and Life Sciences, College of Health Science, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

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• June seok Heo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Integrated Biomedical and Life Sciences, College of Health Science, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

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• Seungku Lee,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Institute of Human Genomic Study, Korea University Ansan Hospital, Korea University, Ansan, Republic of Korea

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• Chol Shin

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chol-shin@korea.ac.kr

  Affiliations Institute of Human Genomic Study, Korea University Ansan Hospital, Korea University, Ansan, Republic of Korea, Division of Pulmonary, Sleep, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University Ansan Hospital, Ansan, Republic of Korea

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2928-8576

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