Obesity prevalence in Gaziantep, Turkey

Indian Journal of Community Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-34

  Ozcirpici, Birgul ^a   Coskun, Ferhat ^a   Sahinoz, Saime ^a   Ozgur, Servet ^a   Bozkurt, Ali ^b  

^a GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Gaziantep; Obesity frequency; Obesity prevalence; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 60749111746     PISSN: 09700218     EISSN: 19983581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-0218.45371     Document Type: Article

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