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Increasing blood pressure and its associated factors in Canadian children and adolescents from the Canadian Health Measures Survey

BACKGROUND: Canada is facing a childhood obesity epidemic. Elevated blood pressure (BP) is a major complication of obesity. Reports on the impact of excess adiposity on BP in children and adolescents have varied significantly across studies. We evaluated the independent effects of obesity, physical...

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Autores principales: Shi, Yipu, de Groh, Margaret, Morrison, Howard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3395567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22642714
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-388

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