Ethnic and gender disparities in adolescent obesity and elevated systolic blood pressure in a rural US population

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 876-884

  Rodriguez, Ruben ^a   Mowrer, Jana ^a   Romo, Jessica ^a   Aleman, April ^b   Weffer, Simón E ^a   Ortiz, Rudy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Merced Union High School District   (United States)

Author keywords

abdominal obesity; adiposity; adolescents; body mass index; waist circumference

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; MINORITY HEALTH; OBESITY; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; ODDS RATIO; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 77955475723     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922810368135     Document Type: Article

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