Medical complications of obesity

Clinics in Family Practice

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 295-318

  Whitman, Jonna Hooker ^a,b  

^a MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MTSU   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BREAST CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; EPIDEMIC; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LABOR; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MORTALITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PROSTATE CANCER; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; STOMACH CANCER;

EID: 0036624049     PISSN: 15225720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1522-5720(02)00009-0     Document Type: Review

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