Patterns of alcohol drinking and its association with obesity: Data from the third national health and nutrition examination survey, 1988-1994

BMC Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Arif, Ahmed A ^a   Rohrer, James E ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; AGE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 29244457888     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-126     Document Type: Article

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