Prevalence of obesity and overweight in Tunisia on 2001

Tunisie Medicale

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 649-652

  Kamoun, Myrvat ^a   Hajem, Said ^b   Imen, Sahli ^a   Achour, Noureddine ^b   Slimane, Hédia ^a  

^a LA RABTA HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^b Tunisian National Institute of Agronomy   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Obesity; Overweight; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; TUNISIA; URBAN AREA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUNISIA;

EID: 67649158400     PISSN: 00414131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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