Obesity, white blood cell counts, and platelet counts among police officers

Obesity

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2846-2854

  Charles, Luenda E ^a,c   Fekedulegn, Desta ^a   McCall, Terika ^a   Burchfiel, Cecil M ^a   Andrew, Michael E ^a   Violanti, John M ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiposity; BMI; Central obesity; Epidemiology; Hematology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PATHOLOGY; POLICE; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIFE STYLE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PLATELET COUNT; POLICE; PREVALENCE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMOKING;

EID: 38049005082     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2007.338     Document Type: Article

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