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Association of body mass index and waist circumference with high blood pressure in older adults

BACKGROUND: The relationship between obesity and prevalent high blood pressure in older adults has predominantly been estimated using categorical measures of body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC), masking the shape of the dose-response relationship. We aimed to examine the precise relat...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Wenli, He, Kun, Zhao, Hao, Hu, Xueqi, Yin, Chunyu, Zhao, Xiaoyan, Shi, Songhe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8056549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33874889
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-021-02154-5