The relationship between overweight and obesity, and sick leave: A systematic review

International Journal of Obesity

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 807-816

  Van Duijvenbode, D C ^a   Hoozemans, M J M ^b   Van Poppel, M N M ^a   Proper, K I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Levels of evidence; Literature study; Overweight; Relation; Sick leave

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BODY MASS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LEAVE; OBESITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; FEMALE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; OVERWEIGHT; PROCEDURES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WORK CAPACITY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; OVERWEIGHT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SICK LEAVE; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 68949149771     PISSN: 03070565     EISSN: 14765497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2009.121     Document Type: Review

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