Nature or nurture; BMI and blood pressure at 90. Findings from the Belfast Elderly Longitudinal Free-living Aging STudy (BELFAST)

Age

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 261-267

  Rea, I Maeve ^a   Myint, Phyo K ^b   Mueller, Heiko ^a,c   Murphy, Anne ^a   Archbold, G Pooler R ^d   McNulty, Helene ^e   Patterson, Chris C ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Body mass index; Octo nonagenarians; Sodium; Weight

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; SODIUM; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT;

AGED; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATURAL SCIENCE; NURTURING BEHAVIOR; REFERENCE VALUE; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; STROKE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; IRELAND; MALE; ODDS RATIO; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SODIUM;

EID: 75949100814     PISSN: 01619152     EISSN: 15744647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11357-009-9096-1     Document Type: Article

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