Open AccessWhich anthropometric measurements is most closely related to elevated blood pressure?
Author(s) -
Bektaş Murat Yalçın,
Erkan Melih Şahi̇n,
Esra Yalçın
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
family practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.955
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1460-2229
pISSN - 0263-2136
DOI - 10.1093/fampra/cmi043
Subject(s) - waist , medicine , body mass index , anthropometry , blood pressure , circumference , obesity , waist–hip ratio , cardiology , geometry , mathematics
Epidemiological studies find a progressive increase in the prevalence of elevated blood pressure with increasing adipose tissue. But there is no common opinion about which effectiveness of the anthropometric measurement tools indicating general or android obesity are most important to follow up in patients with elevated blood pressures.
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