Overweight male personnel of the Japan Self-Defense Forces with body mass indices of 23.0-24.9 and obesity-related metabolic disorders

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 116-120

  Sakuta, Hidenari ^a,b   Suzuki, Takashi ^a  

^a Self Defense Forces Central Hospital   (Japan)

^b Sendai Open Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Dyslipidemia; Hypertension; Japanese; Overweight

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BODY MASS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PERSONNEL; SELF DEFENSE; UREMIA; VALIDITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 49549122857     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-007-0010-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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