Impact of parity on anthropometric measures of obesity controlling by multiple confounders: A cross-sectional study in Chilean women

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 461-470

  Koch, E ^a   Bogado, M ^a   Araya, F ^a   Romero, T ^b   Diaz C ^a   Manriquez, L ^c   Parades, M ^d   Roman C ^d   Taylor, A ^d   Kirschbaum, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b SHARP HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c Hospital Regional Rancagua   (Chile)

^d Consultorio de San Francisco ^*  (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; FAT; HEALTH RISK; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CHILE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MACROSOMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MENARCHE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PARENT; PARITY; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZATION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADIPOSITY; ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHILE; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBESITY; PARITY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 42549153419     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2007.062240     Document Type: Article

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