Influence of socio-economic and lifestyle factors on overweight and nutrition-related diseases among Tunisian migrants versus non-migrant Tunisians and French

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Méjean, Caroline ^a,b   Traissac, Pierre ^a   Eymard Duvernay, Sabrina ^a   El Ati, Jalila ^c   Delpeuch, Francis ^a   Maire, Bernard ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c Institut National de Nutrition Tunis   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; MORBIDITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ADOLESCENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FRANCE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; INTERVIEW; MEN'S HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TUNISIA; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FRANCE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MEN'S HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION DISORDERS; OVERWEIGHT; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TUNISIA; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 36749059536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-265     Document Type: Article

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