Childhood obesity and adulthood cardiovascular disease: quantifying the lifetime cumulative burden of cardiovascular risk factors

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¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina. Electronic address: litwins@musc.edu.

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Sheldon E Litwin. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014.

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. 2014 Oct 14;64(15):1588-90.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2014.07.962.

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina. Electronic address: litwins@musc.edu.

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Keywords: body mass index; cardiovascular disease; childhood obesity; hypertension; risk factors.

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