Commentary: The importance of addressing the rise of overweight and obesity - Progress or lack of action during the last fifty years?

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 18-20

  Uauy, Ricardo ^a   Lock, Karen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION;

BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK REDUCTION; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BODY WEIGHT; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 32144431745     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyi266     Document Type: Note

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