Coronary risk factors in Turkish school children - Report of a pilot study

Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 187-191

  Coskun Y ^a,b   Bayraktaroglu Z ^a  

^a GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; blood lipids; blood pressure; children; obesity

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

EID: 0031018920     PISSN: 08035253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1997.tb08866.x     Document Type: Article

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