Body composition and ankle-brachial index in Ghanaians with asymptomatic peripheral arterial disease in a tertiary hospital

BACKGROUND: Ankle-brachial index (ABI) and indices of obesity are both use to indicate cardiovascular risk. However, association between body composition indices and ABI, a measure of peripheral arterial disease, is inconsistent in various study reports. In this study, we investigated the relationsh...

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Autores principales: Yeboah, Kwame, Puplampu, Peter, Yorke, Ernest, Antwi, Daniel A., Gyan, Ben, Amoah, Albert G. B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866025/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27239322
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40608-016-0107-3

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