Urbanization, physical activity, and metabolic health in sub-Saharan Africa

Diabetes Care

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 491-496

  Assah, Felix K ^a,b   Ekelund, Ulf ^a   Brage, Soren ^a   Mbanya, Jean Claude ^b   Wareham, Nicholas J ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEMALE; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WALKING;

ADULT; CAMEROON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79951696473     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc10-0990     Document Type: Article

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