The metabolic syndrome is diagnosed when an individual has three or more of five risk factors.  Which risk factor listed below is NOT on this list?

The course syllabus includes the following specifics about written work and plagiarism.

Which one of the following tests is the most sensitive indicator of iron status after iron stores are depleted but before anemia develops?

Measuring retinol binding protein can be use as a surrogate instead of retinol to assess Vitamin A status.

Disease risk is increased in persons with ____________ obesity.

Low muscle mass and weakness are potentially disabling in older adults, and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Sarcopenia Project recommends the use of __________ to determine weakness.

A drawback of the doubly labeled water approach for measuring energy expenditure is that it is unsuitable for use in infants and in women who are pregnant or lactating.

Which one of the following values correctly represents pre-hypertension for an adult?

Which of the following factors is not associated with increased prevalence of hypertension?

Since the 1960s, the mean total serum cholesterol level of U.S. adults has __________.