Height, weight and body mass index (BMI) in psychiatrically ill US Armed Forces personnel

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 363-368

  Wyatt, Richard J ^a,b   Henter, Ioline D ^a,b   Mojtabai, R ^a,b   Bartko, J J ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARMY; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEGRO; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOLDIER; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037322950     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291702006694     Document Type: Article

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