Association of body mass index with blood pressure in 80-year-old subjects

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2165-2169

  Matsumura, Kiyoshi ^a,b   Ansai, Toshihiro ^a   Awano, Shuji ^a   Hamasaki, Tomoko ^a   Akifusa, Sumio ^a   Takehara, Tadamichi ^a   Abe, Isao ^b   Takata, Yutaka ^a  

^a KYUSHU DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aged; Blood pressure; Body mass index; Eighty years old; Japanese

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CREATININE; GLUCOSE;

AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0035211614     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004872-200112000-00008     Document Type: Article

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