Non-fatal disease burden associated with excess body mass index and waist circumference in New Zealand adults

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 231-237

  Turley, Maria ^a   Tobias, Martin ^a   Paul, Sue ^a  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTIONAL DEPRIVATION; EPIDEMIC; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; OBESITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP DISORDER; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ABORIGINE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; COST OF ILLNESS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ASTHMA; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; COST OF ILLNESS; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW ZEALAND; OBESITY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SLEEP DISORDERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 33747088258     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2006.tb00863.x     Document Type: Article

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