Obesity: Epidemiology and possible prevention

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 595-610

  Caterson, Ian D ^a   Gill, Timothy P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abdominal obesity; Body mass index; Environmental change; Obesity prevalence; Prevention; Waist circumference

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXERCISE; FOOD; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SOCIETY; WEIGHT GAIN; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ASIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GROUPS BY AGE; HYPERTENSION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA;

EID: 0036910780     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/beem.2002.0228     Document Type: Review

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