Estimating the burden of disease attributable to excess body weight in South Africa in 2000

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 683-690

  Joubert, Jané ^a   Norman, Rosana ^a   Bradshaw, Debbie ^a   Goedecke, Julia H ^b   Steyn, Nelia P ^a   Puoane, Thandi ^c  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISABILITY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AFRICA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; SEX RATIO;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COST OF ILLNESS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OVERWEIGHT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 38449110519     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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