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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

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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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Living Past 100: Insights from Centenarians on a Long, Healthy Life

Dr. Paddy Barrett

MARCH 23, 2024

As you can see from the above graph, about 50% of people (Controls In White) will have developed a major chronic disease by 70 years of age. Subscribe now For the supercentenarians (Light Blue Line) who live up to 119 years of age, most of them do not have a major chronic disease until well after 100 years of age 3.

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

Living Past 100: Insights from Centenarians on a Long, Healthy Life

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