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Buenos Aires University Hospital de Clinicas

Waist-hip ratio offers data to predict hypertension in patients undergoing ambulatory BP monitoring

Researchers in Argentina conducted a study "To examine the relationship between 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) and the three commonest anthropometric measurements for obesity [body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) and waist-hip ratio (WHR)] in patients with essential hypertension never treated or after a 3 week placebo period, living in Buenos Aires. The study design was a cross-sectional survey among outpatients at the Hypertension Program of Buenos Aires University Hospital de Clinicas."

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