Obesity in adult residents of Accra, Ghana

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 2 SUPPL. 2, 2003, Pages

  Amoah, Albert G B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Ghana; Obesity; Overweight; Population; Prevalence; Rural; Social class; Sub Saharan African; Survey; Urban

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZATION; RURAL POPULATION; SAMPLING; SEX RATIO; URBAN POPULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0042528356     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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