Sexual differences in relationships between birth weight or current body weight and blood pressure or cholesterol in young Japanese students

Hypertension Research - Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 169-172

  Kawabe, Hiroshi ^a   Shibata, Hirotaka ^a   Hirose, Hiroshi ^a   Tsujioka, Minako ^a   Saito, Ikuo ^a   Saruta, Takao ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Birth weight; Blood pressure; Body weight; Cholesterol

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0032843783     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1291/hypres.22.169     Document Type: Article

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