Obesity and attained education: Cohort study of more than 700,000 Swedish men

Obesity

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1421-1428

  Karnehed, Nina ^a   Rasmussen, Finn ^a,b,c   Hemmingsson, Tornas ^b,d   Tynelius, Per ^c  

^a Child and Adolescent Public Health Epidemiology Group   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c Stockholm Centre of Public Health   (Sweden)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Education; School marks; Stigmatization; University

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SWEDEN;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SOCIAL CLASS; SWEDEN;

EID: 33750596184     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2006.161     Document Type: Article

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