Role of waist measures in characterizing the lipid and blood pressure assessment of adolescents classified by body mass index

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 166, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 719-724

  Khoury, Michael ^a   Manlhiot, Cedric ^a   Dobbin, Stafford ^b   Gibson, Don ^b   Chahal, Nita ^a   Wong, Helen ^a   Davies, Jolie ^a   Stearne, Karen ^b   Fisher, Amanda ^b   McCrindle, Brian W ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b Heart Niagara Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CANADA; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIPID ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CANADA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LIPIDS; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; RISK FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 84865574826     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: 15383628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.126     Document Type: Article

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