Body mass index and the prevalence of prehypertension and hypertension in a Chinese rural population

Internal Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 893-897

  Pang, Wenyue ^a   Sun, Zhaoqing ^a   Zheng, Liqiang ^b   Li, Jue ^b   Zhang, Xingang ^a   Liu, Shuangshuang ^a   Xu, Changlu ^a   Li, Jiajin ^a   Hu, Dayi ^b   Sun, Yingxian ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Hypertension; Prehypertension; Rural adult people

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHINESE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; AGED; CHINA; MIDDLE AGED; RISK;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 45849149232     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.47.0528     Document Type: Article

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