Weight status and hypertension among adolescent girls in Argentina and Norway: Data from the ENNyS and HUNT studies

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Stray Pedersen, Marit ^a   Helsing, Ragnhild M ^a   Gibbons, Luz ^b   Cormick, Gabriela ^b   Holmen, Turid L ^c   Vik, Torstein ^a   Belizán, José M ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS AND HEALTH POLICY   (Argentina)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; NORWAY; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK;

ADOLESCENT; ARGENTINA; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; NORWAY; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE;

EID: 73349111227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-398     Document Type: Article

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