Predictors of blood pressure in a cohort of school-aged children

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 624-629

  Mirzaei, Masoud ^a,b   Taylor, Richard ^c   Morrell, Stephen ^a   Leeder, Stephen R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

anthropometric measures; birth weight; blood pressure; children; longitudinal

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CATCH UP GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE;

EID: 35048838569     PISSN: 20474873     EISSN: 20474881     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HJR.0b013e32828621c6     Document Type: Article

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