Quantifying the relationships of blood pressure with weight, height and body mass index in Chinese children and adolescents

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 413-418

  Ma, Jun ^a   Wang, Zhiqiang ^b   Dong, Bin ^a   Song, Yi ^a   Hu, Peijin ^a   Zhang, Bing ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

adolescent; blood pressure; body height; body weight; child; obesity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CHINESE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; OBESITY; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84861195767     PISSN: 10344810     EISSN: 14401754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.2011.02221.x     Document Type: Article

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