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https://hdl.handle.net/10216/87393| Author(s): | S. Guerra J. C. Ribeiro J. Oliveira A. Teixeira Pinto J. W. R. Twisk J. A. Duarte J. Mota |
| Title: | One-year stability of cardiovascular diseases risk factors in Portuguese youngters |
| Issue Date: | 2003 |
| Abstract: | The purposes of the present study were to analyze the stability of biological risk factors for CVD (blood pressure [BP], percentage of fat mass [%FM], total cholesterol [TC]) and one behavioral/life style risk factor (physical activity [PA]), as well as to study the stability of biological risk factors clustering. The sample comprised 325 males and 367 females, aged 8-15 years old. Participants were classified as being "at risk" according to age and sex adjusted 4th quartile or the first for PA. Three biological risk factors (%FM, SBP and TC) showed higher stability (one-year interval; r = 0.9-0.5) than DBP (r = 0.3) and PAI (r = 0.3). It can be concluded that 46% of subjects with two and/or three biological risk factors at the first measurement remained with the same number of biological risk factors in the second measurement. |
| Subject: | Medicina clínica Clinical medicine |
| Scientific areas: | Ciências médicas e da saúde::Medicina clínica Medical and Health sciences::Clinical medicine |
| URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10216/87393 |
| Document Type: | Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional |
| Rights: | restrictedAccess |
| Appears in Collections: | FADEUP - Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional FMUP - Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional |
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