Metabolic syndrome, associated factors and optimal waist circumference cut points: findings from a cross-sectional community-based study in the elderly population in Asmara, Eritrea.

31 Emphasising the latter point, some investigators have averred that improved longevity and population growth are leading to increasing proportions and numbers of older people, with age-related diseases emerging as a significant trend in many parts of the world. 32 33 Regardless, rapid transitions in social–cultural and economic structures and accompanying, nutrition and life styles imbalances do not seem to explain much in this setting.

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