Are abdominal obesity and body mass index independent predictors of hemorheological parameters?
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Are abdominal obesity and body mass index independent predictors of hemorheological parameters?
There is an association between obesity and rheological blood behavior [2, 4–7]. In this sense we have read with interest the recently published article by Brun et al. [1] in this journal. The authors evaluate, in a population of 430 subjects, the relationship between abdominal obesity and body mass index (BMI) with blood viscosity, and conclude that both anthropometric parameters are associate...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1386-0291
DOI: 10.3233/ch-121656