Waist-to-height ratio and BMI predict different cardiovascular risk factors in Chinese children [6]

Diabetes Care

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2760-2761

  Yan, Weili ^a   Wang, Xiaoling ^b   Yao, Hua ^a   Dai, Jianghong ^a   Zheng, Yujian ^a   Yang, Xiaoyan ^a   Yibulayin, Xiaokaiti ^a   Cui, Jun ^c  

^a XINJIANG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c Education and Research Center of Urumqi   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; CHINA; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ETHNIC GROUP; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LETTER; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; CHINA; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33845499741     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 01495992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc06-1546     Document Type: Letter

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