Abdominal obesity epidemiology amongst adult women resident in Southern Brazil;Epidemiologia da obesidade abdominal em mulheres adultas residentes no sul do Brasil

Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutricion

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 349-356

  Olinto, Maria Teresa Anselmo ^a   Da Costa, Juvenal Soares Dias ^a   Kac, Gilberto ^a   Pattussi, Marcos Pascoal ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Abdominal adiposity; Abdominal obesity; Menarche; Populational based study; Risk factors; Women

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; BRAZIL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 45749130588     PISSN: 00040622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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