Race/ethnic and sex differential in body mass among US adults

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 389-398

  Denney, Justin T ^a   Krueger, Patrick M ^a   Rogers, Richard G ^a   Boardman, Jason D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass; Obesity; Race ethnicity; Sex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUBA; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; PUERTO RICO; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY MASS INDEX; CUBA; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PUERTO RICO; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4344671955     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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