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Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations between Body Mass Index and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Adolescents in a Country of the African Region

We assessed the association between several cardiometabolic risk factors (CRFs) (blood pressure, LDL-cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, triglycerides, uric acid, and glucose) in 390 young adults aged 19-20 years in Seychelles (Indian Ocean, Africa) and body mass index (BMI) measured either at the same ti...

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Autores principales: Lyngdoh, Tanica, Viswanathan, Bharathi, van Wijngaarden, Edwin, Myers, Gary J., Bovet, Pascal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3766579/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24062771
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/801832