Association between tobacco use and body mass index in urban Indian population: Implications for public health in India

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Pednekar, Mangesh S ^a   Gupta, Prakash C ^a   Shukla, Heema C ^b   Hebert, James R ^c  

^a HEALIS SEKHSARIA INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH   (India)

^b Directorate of Public Health and Health Improvement   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; TOBACCO; URBAN AREA; AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POVERTY AREAS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS; URBAN HEALTH; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 33646557609     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-70     Document Type: Article

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