Sib-recruitment for studying migration and its impact on obesity and diabetes

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lyngdoh, Tanica ^a   Kinra, Sanjay ^b   Shlomo, Yoav Ben ^b   Reddy, Srinath ^a,c   Prabhakaran, Dorairaj ^a,c   Smith, George Davey ^b   Ebrahim, Shah ^d  

^a CENTRE FOR CHRONIC DISEASE CONTROL   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOOD ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; INDIA; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SIBLING; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33646858127     PISSN: 17427622     EISSN: 17427622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-7622-3-2     Document Type: Article

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