Number of children and the risk of obesity in older women

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 99-104

  Bastian, Lori A ^a,b   West, Nancy A ^c   Corcoran, Chris ^d   Munger, Ronald G ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Utah Sate University   (United States)

Author keywords

Obesity; Older women; Parity

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MARRIAGE; MENARCHE; NULLIPARA; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; OBESITY; PARITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 7744219990     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2004.05.007     Document Type: Article

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