Obesity, Ethnicity, and Sleep-Disordered Breathing: Medical and Health Policy Implications

Clinics in Chest Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 521-533

  See, Carolina Q ^a   Mensah, Edward ^a   Olopade, Christopher O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EXERCISE; FUNDING; GENETIC RISK; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL COUNSELING; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COUNSELING; ETHNIC GROUPS; EXERCISE; FACE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; OBESITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; SKULL; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33746566540     PISSN: 02725231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2006.04.008     Document Type: Review

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