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Association between obesity indices and cardiovascular risk factors in late adolescence in the Seychelles

BACKGROUND: The ability of different obesity indices to predict cardiovascular risk is still debated in youth and few data are available in sub Saharan Africa. We compared the associations between several indices of obesity and cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs) in late adolescence in the Seychelle...

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Autores principales: Bovet, Pascal, Arlabosse, Tiphaine, Viswanathan, Bharathi, Myers, Gary
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/PMC3507891/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23134594
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-12-176