Estimated risk of coronary heart disease in obese adult males in Northern Jordan

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 681-686

  Alboqai, Omar K ^a   Suleiman, Ahmad A ^b   Al Natour, Mohammad Q ^c   Al Hourani, Huda M ^d   Abuirmeileh, Naji M ^e  

^a Royal Medical Services   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^c JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^d HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^e ISRA UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CALCULATION; CHI SQUARE TEST; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVIEW; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JORDAN; LIPID ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING HABIT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; JORDAN; MALE; OBESITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 33646551172     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 03795284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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