Anthropometric indices and their relationship with diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia in Australian Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 172-178

  Wang, Zaimin ^a,b   Rowley, Kevin ^b   Wang, Zhiqiang ^a   Piers, Leonard ^c   O'dea, Kerin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c St Vincent's Hospital ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal Australians; anthropometric indices; cardiovascular disease risk factors; coronary heart disease; Torres Strait Islanders

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ABORIGINE; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY BUILD; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HIP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTOR; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIAS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 34247538572     PISSN: 20474873     EISSN: 20474881     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.hjr.0000220580.34763.fb     Document Type: Article

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