Are we facing an obesity pandemic?;Peut-on parler de pandémie d'obésité ?

Presse Medicale

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 902-906

  Jacobi, David ^a   Buzelé, Rodolphe ^a   Couet, Charles ^a  

^a CHU BRETONNEAU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIETARY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; OBESITY; PANDEMIC; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 77956909243     PISSN: 07554982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lpm.2010.01.014     Document Type: Short Survey

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