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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 153, No. 7 : 717-718
Copyright © 2001 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RE: "CLUSTERING OF PROCOAGULATION, INFLAMMATION, AND FIBRINOLYSIS VARIABLES WITH METABOLIC FACTORS IN INSULIN RESISTANCE SYNDROME"

Frank B. Hu

Department of Nutrition Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA 02115


   INTRODUCTION
 
Sakkinen et al. (1Go) derived multiple factors of insulin resistance syndrome through factor analysis of 21 metabolic and hemostatic variables. They used orthogonal transformation (varimax rotation in SAS computer software) to rotate the factors in order to achieve clearer interpretability. Thus, the derived factors including body mass, insulin/glucose, lipids, blood pressure, and so on are "uncorrelated." . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Michael R. Lewis and Russell P. Tracy

Department of Pathology College of Medicine University of Vermont Colchester, VT 05446
Departments of Pathology and of Biochemistry University of Vermont Burlington, VT 05405-0068


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