The widespread use of elevated triglyceride levels as a diagnostic criterion for metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk needs re-evaluation in people of African descent due to the triglyceride paradox.
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May miss insulin resistance in people of African descent with TG-based criteria; leaves open ancestry-specific metabolic syndrome definitions.
Yu et al. (2012) studied this question.
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