Anthropometry anti adiposity in a group of people with chronic mental illness

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 77-81

  Sharpe, Jenny Kay ^a   Hills, Andrew P ^b  

^a WOLSTON PARK HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adiposity; Anthropometry; Chronic mental illness

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BODY FAT; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; OBESITY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; REFERENCE VALUES; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

EID: 0031596734     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1614.1998.00369.x     Document Type: Article

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