Overweight and obesity in a Swiss city: 10-Year trends

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 914-919

  Kyle, Ursula G ^a   Kossovsky, Michel P ^a   Genton, Laurence ^a   Pichard, Claude ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Body composition; Fat mass; Fat free mass; Leisure time activity; Long term trends

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; LEISURE; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWITZERLAND;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 34547730991     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S136898000765798X     Document Type: Article

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