Assessment of rates of overweight and obesity and symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression in a sample of Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom Veterans

Military Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 151-155

  Barber, Jessica ^a   Bayer, Laura ^b   Pietrzak, Robert H ^b   Sanders, Kathryn A ^b  

^a VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VETERAN; WAR;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; VETERANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951537166     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-09-00275     Document Type: Article

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