The impact of obesity and body fat distribution on ambulatory blood pressure in children and adolescents

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 11, Issue 4 I, 1998, Pages 418-424

  Lurbe, Empar ^a   Alvarez, Vicente ^a   Liao, Youlian ^b   Tacons, Jose ^a   Cooper, Richard ^b   Cremades, Beatriz ^a   Torro, Isabel ^a   Redón, Josep ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Blood pressure; Body fat distribution; Children; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY FAT; CHILD; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0031801117     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-7061(97)00493-7     Document Type: Article

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