High rates of obesity prevalence in adults living in Central Greece: Data from the ARGOS study

Hormones

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 253-262

  Koukoulis, George N ^a   Sakka, Christina ^a   Katsaros, Fotis ^a   Goutou, Maria ^a   Tsirona, Sofia ^a   Tsiapali, Efthimia ^a   Piterou, Aristea ^a   Stefanidis, Ioannis ^a   Stathakis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Central obesity; Morbid obesity; Obesity; Overweight

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GREECE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRATIFIED SAMPLE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADIPOSITY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; OBESITY, MORBID; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956286451     PISSN: 11093099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14310/horm.2002.1275     Document Type: Article

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