Workplace weight loss program: Impact on quality of life

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1396-1403

  Bruno, Maura ^a   Touger Decker, Riva ^a   Byham Gray, Laura ^a   Denmark, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84856516795     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3182338644     Document Type: Article

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