Age-variability in body shape associated with excess weight: The UK national sizing survey

Obesity

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 435-441

  Wells, Jonathan C K ^a   Cole, Tim J ^a   Treleaven, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 39449110471     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2007.62     Document Type: Article

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