Association between obesity indices and cardiovascular risk factors in late adolescence in the Seychelles

BACKGROUND: The ability of different obesity indices to predict cardiovascular risk is still debated in youth and few data are available in sub Saharan Africa. We compared the associations between several indices of obesity and cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs) in late adolescence in the Seychelle...

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Main Authors: Bovet, Pascal, Arlabosse, Tiphaine, Viswanathan, Bharathi, Myers, Gary
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2012
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Research Article
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3507891/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23134594
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-12-176
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