Thermal discomfort with cold extremities in relation to age, gender, and body mass index in a random sample of a Swiss urban population

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Mozaffarieh, Maneli ^a   Fontana Gasio, Paola ^b   Schötzau, Andreas ^a   Orgül, Selim ^a   Flammer, Josef ^a   Kräuchi, Kurt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY EYE CLINIC   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; BODY MASS; GENDER RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COLD LIMB; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOM SAMPLE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWITZERLAND; THERMAL DISCOMFORT WITH COLD EXTREMITY; URBAN AREA;

BASEL; BASEL-STADT; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77952997853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-8-17     Document Type: Article

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