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Waist-to-height-ratio is associated with sustained hypertension in children and adolescents with high office blood pressure
BACKGROUND: Waist-to-height-ratio (WHtR) has been proposed as another indicator for cardiometabolic risk factors including hypertension. Normally, hypertension can be diagnosed in the office setting by detecting high blood pressure for three occasions. However, patients with high office blood pressu...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9874100/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36712271 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2022.1026606 |