Obesity on the Rise

Primary Care - Clinics in Office Practice

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 243-255

  Boardley, Debra ^a,b   Pobocik, Rebecca S ^b,c  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^b Northwest Ohio Consortium for Public Health   (United States)

^c BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropometric measures; Epidermiology; Health care costs; Obesity; Overweight; Public health

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ASIAN; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LIFESPAN; MEDICAL CARE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MINORITY GROUP; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ABSENTEEISM; AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; COST OF ILLNESS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 66549106261     PISSN: 00954543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pop.2009.01.003     Document Type: Review

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