Body composition, leg length and blood pressure in a rural Italian population: A test of the capacity-load model

Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1204-1212

  Montagnese, C ^a,b   Nutile, T ^b   Marphatia, A A ^c   Grijalva Eternod, C S ^d   Siervo, M ^e   Ciullo, M ^b   Wells, J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Body composition; Growth; Leg length; Metabolic capacity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY COMPOSITION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; LEG LENGTH; MALE; OBESITY; PULSE PRESSURE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84909588837     PISSN: 09394753     EISSN: 15903729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.numecd.2014.05.006     Document Type: Article

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