Association of overall and abdominal obesity with coronary heart disease risk factors: Comparison between urban and rural Indian men

Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 66-71

  Venkatramana, Palla ^a   Reddy, Palakuru C ^a  

^a SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Abdominal obesity; Andhra Pradesh; Blood pressure; Coronary heart disease risk; High density lipoprotein cholesterol; India; Obesity; Tirupati; Total cholesterol

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMAN; INDIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; MIDDLE AGED;

ABDOMEN; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; INDIA; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0036023709     PISSN: 09647058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-6047.2002.00250.x     Document Type: Article

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