Obesity, emerging risk in China: Trend of increasing prevalence of obesity and its association with hypertension AND hypercholesterolaemia among the chinese

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 31, Issue SUPPL.2, 2004, Pages

  Liu, Longjian ^a   Ikeda, Katsumi ^d   Chen, Ming ^b   Yin, Wei ^c   Mizushima, Shunsaku ^e   Miki, Tomohiro ^d   Nara, Yasuo ^f   Yamori, Yukio ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Regional Hospital of Jing Guan   (China)

^d MUKOGAWA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f SHUJITSU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g International Center for Research on Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chinese; Long term trend; Obesity

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CHINA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RISK;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHINA; CHOLESTEROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK;

EID: 32544439550     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2004.04105.x     Document Type: Article

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