Economic costs of obesity;Costes económicos de la obesidad

Revista Espanola de Obesidad

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-12

  Pereira Cunill, Jose Luis ^a   García Luna, Pedro Pablo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDITORIAL; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; OBESITY; PREVALENCE;

EID: 33646884628     PISSN: 16966112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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