Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference Are Associated With Blood Pressure in Preschool-Aged Children

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 351-357

  Gopinath, Bamini ^a   Baur, Louise A ^a   Garnett, Sarah ^a   Pfund, Natalie ^a   Burlutsky, George ^a   Mitchell, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blood Pressure; Body Mass Index; Ethnicity Preschool Aged Children; Sydney Paediatric Eye Disease Study; Waist Circumference

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NEW SOUTH WALES; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; QUESTIONNAIRES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 79953191492     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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