Editorial: Chronic disease burden in rural India attributable to diet, obesity, and tobacco use

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-2

  Singh, P ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALM OIL;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; EDITORIAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INDIA; LEISURE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SMOKING; TOBACCO; COST OF ILLNESS; NOTE;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; DIET; HUMANS; INDIA; OBESITY; RURAL POPULATION; TOBACCO;

EID: 79951532630     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: 09722823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.76349     Document Type: Editorial

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