Overweight and obesity in the mortality rate data: Current evidence and research issues

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 31, Issue 11 SUPPL., 1999, Pages

  Seidell, Jacob C ^a   Visscher, Tommy L S ^a   Hoogeveen, Rudolf T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Ethnicity; Lifestyle; Mortality; Obesity; Overweight

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH;

EID: 0032707314     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-199911001-00018     Document Type: Article

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