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A novel quantitative body shape score for detecting association between obesity and hypertension in China

BACKGROUND: Obesity is a major independent risk factor for chronic diseases such as hypertension and coronary diseases, it might not be only related to the amount of body fat but its distribution. The single body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist to hip ratio (WHR) or waist to statur...

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Autores principales: Wang, Shukang, Liu, Yanxun, Li, Fangyu, Jia, Hongying, Liu, Longjian, Xue, Fuzhong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4308906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25595192
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-014-1334-5