Psychological workload and weight gain among women with and without familial obesity

Obesity

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 458-463

  Overgaard, Dorthe ^a,b,d   Gamborg, Michael ^b   Gyntelberg, Finn ^c   Heitmann, Berit L ^b  

^a School of Nursing and Radiography   (Denmark)

^b The Capital Region   (Denmark)

^c BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Job busyness; Job influence; Nurses; Prospective study; Weight changes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; WEIGHT GAIN; WORK; WORKLOAD;

CAUSALITY; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; JOB DESCRIPTION; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WEIGHT GAIN; WORKLOAD;

EID: 33749166638     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2006.60     Document Type: Article

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