Anthropometric indices as determinants of haemorheological cardiovascular disease risk factors in Nigerian adults living in a semi-urban community

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 335-344

  Famodu, A A ^a   Awodu, O A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BENIN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Anthropometric indices; Haemorheological cardiovascular disease risk factors; Nigerians

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMMUNITY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIGERIA; PLASMA VISCOSITY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; URBAN AREA; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; HEMATOCRIT; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; OBESITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 75149181441     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/CH-2009-1244     Document Type: Article

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