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Associations of obesity and serum leptin level with elevated blood pressure among urban secondary school students of a northeastern city of India: A baseline observation

BACKGROUND: Elevated blood pressure has been found to be associated with body mass index (BMI) and serum leptin levels among adults. But there is a paucity of reports regarding such associations among adolescents. OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalence of prehypertension and hypertension and its ass...

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Autores principales: Goswami, Bidhan, Bhattacharjya, Himadri, Sengupta, Shauli, Bhattacharjee, Bhaskar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7266252/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32509630
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1118_19