Patterns of body fat deposition in youth and their relation to left ventricular markers of adverse cardiovascular prognosis

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 583-588

  Mensah, George A ^a   Treiber, Frank A ^b   Kapuku, Gaston K ^a   Davis, Harry ^a,c   Barnes, Vernon A ^a   Strong, William B ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Department of Pediatrics ^*

^c Office of Biostatistics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTENSION; LIPID STORAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIAC VOLUME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; OBESITY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SOMATOTYPES; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 0032840328     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)00383-5     Document Type: Article

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