Ethnic differences in the association between waist-to-height ratio and albumin-creatinine ratio: The observational SUNSET study

BMC Nephrology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Van Valkengoed, Irene G M ^a   Agyemang, Charles ^a   Krediet, Ray T ^a   Stronks, Karien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SMOKING; URINALYSIS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HEIGHT RATIO;

ADULT; AFRICA; ALBUMINURIA; ASIA; BODY HEIGHT; COMORBIDITY; CREATININE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84860550324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2369-13-26     Document Type: Article

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