Changes in body fat distribution through menopause increase blood pressure independently of total body fat in middle-aged women: The Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2007-2010

Hypertension Research

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 444-449

  Park, Jin Kyu ^a   Lim, Young Hyo ^a   Kim, Kyung Soo ^a   Kim, Soon Gil ^b   Kim, Jeong Hyun ^a   Lim, Heon Gil ^a   Shin, Jinho ^a  

^a Hanyang University Medical Center   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University Guri Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

blood pressure; body fat distribution; central obesity; menopause; waist circumference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY FAT; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; DATA BASE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TOTAL BODY FAT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OBESITY; REPUBLIC OF KOREA;

EID: 84877250497     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2012.194     Document Type: Article

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