Increased ratio of trunk to appendicular fat and increased blood pressure: Study of a general population of Hamamatsu children

Circulation Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2848-2854

  Kouda, Katsuyasu ^a,b   Nakamura, Harunobu ^a,b   Fujita, Yuki ^a,b   Ohara, Kumiko ^a,b   Iki, Masayuki ^a,b  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Body fat distribution; Child; Densitometry

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

APPENDICULAR FAT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY FAT; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY REGIONS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRUNK FAT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADIPOSITY; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; JAPAN; LINEAR MODELS; LIPIDS; MALE; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TORSO; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84870564777     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-12-0417     Document Type: Article

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