ContextThe metabolic syndrome, a concurrence of disturbed glucose and insulin metabolism,
overweight and abdominal fat distribution, mild dyslipidemia, and hypertension, is …

This study aims to demonstrate the prevalence of pain as a reason for seeing a physician in
primary care. We also performed an analysis of the localization, duration and frequency of …

ContextChronic pain is common in Western societies. Self-rated health is an important indicator
of morbidity and mortality, but little is known about the relation between chronic pain and …

Most researchers agree that obesity is an important modulator of the metabolic syndrome, 1
2 which is a clustering of cardiovascular risk factors associated with insulin resistance—such …

Objective: Previous cross-sectional studies have suggested that patients with depression
have a high risk for metabolic syndrome. As there is a paucity of data concerning the temporal …

Objective: To evaluate the risk for developing metabolic syndrome when having depressive
symptoms. Method: The prevalence of depressive symptoms and metabolic syndrome at …

Musculoskeletal pain is an outstanding symptom among the patients of primary health care.
However, there are few studies of management and costs of musculoskeletal pain at primary …

Pain is a major cause for visiting a primary care physician. There are, however, few studies
on the assessment of pain patients at the primary care level. The aim of this cross-sectional …

Statistics and prescription database studies show that analgesics are widely utilized, but do
not tell anything about either the factors behind analgesic use or how over-the-counter (OTC…

OBJECTIVE: To examine whether birth weight, weight gain from birth to the age of seven or
body-mass index at the age of seven have any association with metabolic syndrome as an …