Hypertension, diabetes and overweight: Looming legacies of the biafran famine

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Hult, Martin ^a   Tornhammar, Per ^a   Ueda, Peter ^a   Chima, Charles ^b   Bonamy, Anna Karin Edstedt ^a   Ozumba, Benjamin ^b   Norman, Mikael ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FETAL MALNUTRITION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMAN; HUNGER; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIGERIA; OBESITY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAR; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; HYPERTENSION; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR; STARVATION;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; STARVATION;

EID: 78149438429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013582     Document Type: Article

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