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The Effects of Obesity, Gender, and Ethnic Group on Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Geometry in Hypertensive Children: A Collaborative Study of the International Pediatric Hypertension Association
Coral Hanevold, Jennifer Waller, Stephen Daniels, Ronald Portman and Jonathan Sorof
Pediatrics February 2004, 113 (2) 328-333; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.113.2.328
Coral Hanevold
*Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia
Jennifer Waller
‡Office of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia
Stephen Daniels
§Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Ronald Portman
‖Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas
Jonathan Sorof
‖Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas

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The Effects of Obesity, Gender, and Ethnic Group on Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Geometry in Hypertensive Children: A Collaborative Study of the International Pediatric Hypertension Association
Coral Hanevold, Jennifer Waller, Stephen Daniels, Ronald Portman, Jonathan Sorof
Pediatrics Feb 2004, 113 (2) 328-333; DOI: 10.1542/peds.113.2.328
The Effects of Obesity, Gender, and Ethnic Group on Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Geometry in Hypertensive Children: A Collaborative Study of the International Pediatric Hypertension Association
Coral Hanevold, Jennifer Waller, Stephen Daniels, Ronald Portman, Jonathan Sorof
Pediatrics Feb 2004, 113 (2) 328-333; DOI: 10.1542/peds.113.2.328
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Keywords
- hypertension
- obesity
- left ventricular hypertrophy
- echocardiography
- children
- LVH, left ventricular hypertrophy
- LVM, left ventricular mass
- UT, University of Texas Houston
- CHMC, Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati
- MCG, Medical College of Georgia
- BMI, body mass index
- LV, left ventricle
- LVMI, LVM index
- RWT, relative wall thickness
- OR, odds ratio