Open AccessObesity and cardiovascular disease risk factors in black and white girls: the NHLBI Growth and Health Study.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.82.12.1613
Subject(s) - medicine , obesity , anthropometry , blood pressure , cohort , cohort study , risk factor , demography , disease , negroid , blood lipids , gerontology , epidemiology , cholesterol , sociology
Obesity may be a possible explanation for the higher cardiovascular disease mortality in Black women compared with White women. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Growth and Health Study (NGHS) is designed to assess factors associated with the development of obesity in Black and White preadolescent girls and its effects on major cardiovascular-disease risk factors.