The prevalence of cigarette smoking and its relation to certain risk predictors of cardiovascular diseases in central-Slovakian roma children and adolescents

Central European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 67-72

  Hujová, Zuzana ^c   Alberty, Roman ^c   Paulíkova, Edita ^a   Ahlers, Ivan ^a   Ahlersová, Eva ^a   Gábor, Drahoslav ^b   Dove, Michael ^c  

^a P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b Department of Clinical Biochemistry   (Slovakia)

^c MATEJ BEL UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Cardiovascular risk factors; Children; Cigarette smoking; Roma

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; LIPOPROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GIPSY; HUMAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SLOVAKIA; SMOKING; STATISTICS; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GYPSIES; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SLOVAKIA; SMOKING; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 79961123668     PISSN: 12107778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a3621     Document Type: Article

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