High blood pressure and its association with body weight among children and adolescents in the United Arab Emirates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Abdulle, Abdishakur ^a   Al Junaibi, Abdulla ^b   Nagelkerke, Nicolaas ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b ZAYED MILITARY HOSPITAL   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREHYPERTENSION; PREVALENCE; SEX; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; BLOOD PRESSURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84908190838     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085129     Document Type: Article

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