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Performance of obesity indices for screening elevated blood pressure in pediatric population: Systematic review and meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: Hypertension is closely related with obesity in pediatric population. Obesity indices were used for screening elevated blood pressure (BP) in children and adolescents. The present study was to perform a meta-analysis to assess the performance of obesity indices, body mass index (BMI), wa...

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Autores principales: Ma, Chunming, Wang, Rui, Liu, Yue, Lu, Qiang, Lu, Na, Tian, Yiming, Liu, Xiaoli, Yin, Fuzai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5265901/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27684808
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000004811