Medical consequences of obesity

Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 510-514

  Finer, N ^a  

^a Cambridge ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cardiovascular disease; diabetes; dyslipidaemia; hyperinsulinaemia; hypertension; non alcoholic steatohepatosis; sleep apnoea syndrome

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COLON CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FATTY LIVER; GALLSTONE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY CANCER; LIVER FAILURE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; OBESITY; OBESITY HYPOVENTILATION SYNDROME; PANCREAS CANCER; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 33845248634     PISSN: 13573039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.mpmed.2006.09.016     Document Type: Review

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