Place of residence and obesity in 1,578,694 young swedish men between 1969 and 2005

Obesity

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 671-676

  Neovius, Martin ^a   Rasmussen, Finn ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; TIME; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 40149088289     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2007.115     Document Type: Article

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