Overweight, medical comorbidity and health-related quality of life in a community sample of women and men

Obesity

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1627-1634

  Mond, Jonathan M ^a   Baune, Bernhard T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 67749145439     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2009.27     Document Type: Article

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