Blood pressure and obesity of children and adolescents - association with body mass index and waist circumference
The objective of this work was to evaluate the association between the average levels of blood pressure of 706 children in Porto Alegre with their nutritional state - body mass index (BMI), body fat percentage, waist circumference - and with their social-economic state. A prevalence of 12.3% (n=87)...
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| Language: | English |
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Sociedad Latinoamericana de Nutrición
2006-09-01
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| Series: | Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición |
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| Online Access: | http://wwww.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-06222006000300006 |