Relationship between ignorance of own weight and cardiovascular risk in primary care;Relación entre el desconocimiento del propio peso y el riesgo cardiovascular en atención primaria

Atencion Primaria

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 466-470

  Lafarga Giribets, M Antonia ^a,b   Monfort Cabane M ^a   Sanchez Pellicer R ^a   Batlle Farran, F ^a  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE LA SALUT   (Spain)

^b CAP Balafia Pardinves Sec   (Spain)

Author keywords

Body Mass Index; Measurement of weight; Overweight.s; Waist hip ratio

Indexed keywords

FAT;

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ERROR; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLING; SPHYGMOMANOMETRY; URBAN AREA;

EID: 0344271743     PISSN: 02126567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13054022     Document Type: Article

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