Indices of Body composition and chronic morbidity: A cross-sectional study of a rural population in Central Russia

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 350-358

  Kalichman, Leonid ^a   Livshits, Gregory ^a   Kobyliansky, Eugene ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAMPLING; SKIN DISEASE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY COMPOSITION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; RUSSIA; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33646910572     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20506     Document Type: Article

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