Prevalence of overweight and obesity in rural and urban settings of 10 European countries

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 442-446

  Peytremann Bridevaux, I ^a,b   Faeh, D ^a,b   Santos Eggimann, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aged; Middle aged; Obesity; Overweight; Prevalence; Rural population; Urban population

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EDUCATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETIREMENT; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA;

AGED; EUROPE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; RURAL HEALTH; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 34247559713     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2006.11.011     Document Type: Article

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