Risk ratios for obesity in families of obese African-American and Caucasian women

Human Heredity

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 35-40

  Price, R Arlen ^a   Lee, Joseph H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Discordant pairs; Extreme sampling; Lambda; Obesity; Overweight; Risk ratio

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY MASS INDEX; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO;

EID: 0035209354     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000022957     Document Type: Article

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