Adolescent and adult obesity in women: A tidal wave just beginning

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 884-889

  Moore, Thomas R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANGINA PECTORIS; BODY MASS; CANCER; CHOLELITHIASIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; ETHNOLOGY; GALLSTONE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; GOUT; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INFERTILITY; INSULIN RESISTANCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MENTAL DISEASE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STRESS INCONTINENCE; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH TRANSITION; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 7744235655     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.grf.0000135667.23543.4b     Document Type: Review

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