Obesity in Switzerland: Do estimates depend on how body mass index has been assessed?

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 138, Issue 13-14, 2008, Pages 204-210

  Faeh, David ^a   Marques Vidal, Pedro ^b,c   Chiolero, Arnaud ^c   Bopp, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CardioMet   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Measured and self reported weight and height; Obesity; Prevalence; Surveys; Switzerland; Trends

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWITZERLAND; TREND STUDY; VALIDITY;

EID: 42149121339     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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