Prevalence of obesity - baseline assessment in the prospective cohort 'PONS' study

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 246-250

  Zatońska, Katarzyna ^a   Janik Koncewicz, Kinga ^b   Ilow, Rafał ^a   Regulska Ilow, Bozena ^a   Rózańska, Dorota ^a   Szuba, Andrzej ^a   Einhorn, Jakub ^a   Vatten, Lars ^c   Xiao Mei, Mai ^c   Janszky, Imre ^c   Paprzycki, Piotr ^d   Sulkowska, Urszula ^b   Goździewska, Małgorzata ^d   Mańczuk, Marta ^b   Zatoński, Witold A ^b,d  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

BMI; Cohort study; Obesity; Overweight; Poland; PONS; Prospective study; WHR

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; POLAND; POPULATION RISK; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; POLAND; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 84859118130     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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