Obesity related metabolic abnormalities: Distribution and geographic differences among middle-aged and older Chinese populations

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 272-278

  Yu, Zhijie ^a   Lin, Xu ^a   Haas, Jere D ^b   Franco, Oscar H ^c,d   Rennie, Kirsten L ^c   Li, Huaixing ^a   Xu, He ^a   Pang, Xinghuo ^e   Liu, Hong ^f   Zhang, Zheng ^e   Zou, Shurong ^f   Jiao, Shufang ^e  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^c UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^f SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese; Cross sectional survey; Diabetes mellitus; Dyslipidemias; Hypertension; Metabolic syndrome; Obesity; Overweight

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHINESE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ABDOMINAL FAT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 61849103523     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2009.01.004     Document Type: Article

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