C. Obesity and cardiovascular disease risk factors are ethnicity based: A study of women of different ethnic backgrounds in Southeastern Michigan

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 1 SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Hatahet, Wael ^a   Fungwe, Thomas V ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENDER; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; OBESITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; UNITED STATES; ADULT; AGED; ARAB; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ARABS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 15944380799     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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