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Does body mass index or waist-hip ratio correlate with arterial stiffness based on brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity in Chinese rural adults with hypertension?

BACKGROUND: The relationship between obesity indices and arterial stiffness (AS) has not been fully discovered nor has it been studied in depth in large hypertensive patient populations. The aim of this study was to explore the association between body mass index (BMI) and waist-hip ratio (WHR) leve...

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Autores principales: Hu, Feng, Yu, Rihua, Han, Fengyu, Li, Juan, Zhou, Wei, Wang, Tao, Zhu, Lingjuan, Huang, Xiao, Bao, Huihui, Cheng, Xiaoshu
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/PMC8638469/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34852784
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-021-02390-y