1. Body Mass Index and Hypertension Hemodynamic Subtypes in the Adult US Population.
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Chirinos, Julio A., Franklin, Stanley S., Townsend, Raymond R., and Raij, Leopoldo
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HYPERTENSION ,OBESITY in women ,BODY mass index ,PUBLIC health ,DISEASES in adults ,CROSS-sectional method ,NUTRITION ,OBESITY risk factors - Abstract
The article presents a study which investigates hypertension subtypes among adults in the U.S. Cross-sectional analysis of adults enrolled in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examinations Survey (NHANES) and NHANES 1999-2004 and examining the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and the risk of hypertension and hemodynamic subtypes were used. The odds ratio for hypertension for every five-unit increase in BMI was 1.45 and that isolated systolic hypertension is the most prevalent type in obese women in NHANES 1999-2004. Determinants of mean arterial pressure account for the major burden of obesity-related hypertension in the U.S. adult men were suggested by the isolated diastolic hypertension and systodiastolic hypertension (SDH).
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- 2009
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