Levelling off of prevalence of obesity in the adult population of Sweden between 2000/01 and 2004/05

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Sundquist, Jan ^a,b   Johansson, Sven Erik ^a,c   Sundquist, Kristina ^a,c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; SWEDEN; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77950256729     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-119     Document Type: Article

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