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Reference values for body composition and associations with blood pressure in Kenyan adults aged ≥50 years old

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: To develop age- and sex-specific centile reference curves for fat-free mass (FFM) and fat mass (FM) adjusted for height in an adult Kenyan population and to investigate the association between FM, FFM and blood pressure (BP). SUBJECTS/METHODS: Measures of body composition from...

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Autores principales: Bastawrous, Madeleine C., Piernas, Carmen, Bastawrous, Andrew, Oke, Jason, Lasserson, Daniel, Mathenge, Wanjiku, Burton, Matthew J., Jebb, Susan A., Kuper, Hannah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6124645/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29769749
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41430-018-0177-z