Usefulness of visceral obesity (waist/hip ratio) in predicting vascular endothelial function in healthy overweight adults

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1264-1269

  Brook, Robert D ^a,c   Bard, Robert L ^a   Rubenfire, Melvyn ^a   Ridker, Paul M ^b   Rajagopalan, Sanjay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; LIPID DIET; MALE; OBESITY; PARTICLE SIZE; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ADULT; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; BRACHIAL ARTERY; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIETARY FATS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; MALE; OBESITY; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; RISK FACTORS; TRIGLYCERIDES; VASODILATION;

EID: 0035581264     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(01)02088-4     Document Type: Article

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