Relationship of prison life style to blood pressure, serum lipids and obesity in women prisoners in Japan

Industrial Health

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-7

  Nara, Kousuke ^a   Igarashi, Masahiro ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Body mass index; Menopause; Prison; Serum lipids

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; JAPAN; LIFESTYLE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; OBESITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRISONER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 0031936706     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.36.1     Document Type: Article

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