Parity is associated with increased waist circumference and other anthropometric indices of obesity

Eating and Weight Disorders

Volumn 14, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages

  Mansour, Abbas Ali ^a   Ajeel, N A H ^b  

^a Al Faiha Hospital Basrah   (Iraq)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASRAH   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Iraq; Parity; Waist circumference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; PARITY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAQ; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PARITY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 77449090303     PISSN: 11244909     EISSN: 15901262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03327800     Document Type: Article

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