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Are ambulatory blood pressure parameters associated more with central adiposity than with total adiposity? Results of the ELSA-Brasil study

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Background Worldwide obesity has a high prevalence, as well as carries a high risk of several chronic diseases, including hypertension. Studies of the association between obesity and ambulatory blood pressure (BP) are scarce and most use only body mass index (BMI) as indicator of adiposity.

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Decoding Longevity. How To Not Die. Young

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Subscribe now 1 Life's Essential 8 and risk of non-communicable chronic diseases: Outcome-wide analyses. Low = 0 - 49 Moderate = 50 - 79 High = 80 - 100 What Happens To NCD Risk When You Get These Right? To give you a sense of where you fall, the exact measures used in the trial are listed below. Onwards and upwards.

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