Expanding evidence for the multiple dangers of epidemic abdominal obesity

Circulation

Volumn 117, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1624-1626

  Cameron, Adrian J ^a   Zimmet, Paul Z ^a  

^a BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Editorials; Mortality; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ARTHRITIS; ASTHMA; BODY MASS; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF ESTEEM; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ASTHMA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 41649118923     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.775080     Document Type: Editorial

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