Life-course socio-economic factors, skin colour and abdominal obesity in adulthood in a Brazilian birth cohort

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2225-2235

  González, David A ^a   Nazmi, Aydin ^b   Yudkin, John S ^c   Victora, Cesar G ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^b CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abdominal adipose tissue; Cohort study; Socio economic status; Waist:hip ratio

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HIP; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; RACE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADULT; BRAZIL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HIP; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75149124878     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980009990607     Document Type: Article

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