Anthropometric indexes of obesity as an instrument of screening for high coronary risk in adults in the City of Salvador - Bahia;Indicadores antropométricos de obesidade como instrumento de triagem para risco coronariano elevado em adultos na Cidade de Salvador - Bahia

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 26-31

  Pitanga, Francisco José Gondim ^a,b   Lessa, Ines ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Abdominal obesity; Anthropometric indexes of obesity; Coronary risk

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAZIL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 22644440545     PISSN: 0066782X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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