Overweight and obesity among adults in Serbia: Results from the National Health Survey

Eating and Weight Disorders

Volumn 15, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages

  Grujic, Vera ^a   Dragnic N ^b   Radic I ^b   Harhaji, S ^b   Susnjevic S ^a  

^a Center for analysis planning and organization   (Serbia)

^b INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH OF VOJVODINA   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Adults; Obesity; Overweight; Risk factors; Serbia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT DISEASE; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; HUMAN; INCOME; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RURAL AREA; SALT INTAKE; SERBIA; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUGAR INTAKE; VEGETABLE; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SELF CONCEPT; SERBIA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 79952115147     PISSN: 11244909     EISSN: 15901262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03325278     Document Type: Article

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