A multilevel model for comorbid outcomes: Obesity and diabetes in the US

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 333-352

  Congdon, Peter ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Latent variable; Multilevel; Multinomial; Obesity; Poverty; Spatial

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTILEVEL MODEL; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POVERTY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; UNITED STATES; COMPLICATION; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OBESITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949689121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph7020333     Document Type: Article

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