Association of fitness and waist circumference with hypertension in Brazilian elderly women;Associação de aptidão cardiorrespiratória e circunferência abdominal com hipertensão em mulheres idosas Brasileiras

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 2-8

  Krause, Maressa Priscila ^a   Hallage, Tatiane ^b   Gama, Mirnaluci Paulino Ribeiro ^c   Miculis, Cristiane Petra ^b   Matuda, Nívea Da Silva ^b   Da Silva, Sergio G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITÁRIO EVANGÉLICO DE CURITIBA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Abdominal circumference; Aged; Blood pressure; Brazil; Disease prevention; Obesity; Physical fitness; Women

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WALKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAZIL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; PHYSICAL FITNESS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 70350765017     PISSN: 0066782X     EISSN: 16784170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0066-782X2009000700002     Document Type: Article

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