Discriminative ability of adiposity measures for elevated blood pressure among adolescents in a resource-constrained setting in northeast Nigeria: a cross-sectional analysis

BACKGROUND: Several studies examining the association and discriminative ability of adiposity measures for prehypertension and hypertension among adolescents have reported varying outcomes. We aimed to determine the discriminative ability of the Body Mass index (BMI), Waist Circumference (WC), and W...

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Autores principales: Wariri, Oghenebrume, Jalo, Iliya, Bode-Thomas, Fidelia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6276203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30524740
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40608-018-0211-7

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6276203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30524740
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40608-018-0211-7

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