Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Children from the Belgian Province of Luxembourg: The Belgian Luxembourg Child Study
The Province of Luxembourg is an area in Belgium with a high prevalence of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus among adults. In the present study, children in the age groups 6–8, 8–10, and 10–12 years were selected at random from school classes ( n = 1, 028), with a participation rate of 70.3%. Anthropometric factors, blood pressure, and fasting blood glucose, plasma cholesterol, triglyceride, and insulin levels were measured in 1992. All anthropometric and metabolic variables increased with age, except for waist: hip circumference ratio in boys... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | TEXT |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 1996 |
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Oxford University Press
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Schlagwörter: | ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26529571 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/144/9/867 |