Obesity, overweight and body-weight perception in a High Atlas Moroccan population

Obesity Reviews

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 93-99

  Lahmam, A ^a,c   Baali, A ^a   Hilali, M K ^a   Cherkaoui, M ^a   Chapuis Lucciani, N ^b   Boetsch, G ^b  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

^b UMR 6578   (France)

^c CADI AYYAD UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Morocco; Obesity; Overweight; Weight perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOROCCO; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; RURAL POPULATION; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY HEIGHT; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; OBESITY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 38949217067     PISSN: 14677881     EISSN: 1467789X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-789X.2007.00413.x     Document Type: Article

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