Obesity and Gender

Clinical Obesity in Adults and Children

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 58-64

  Heitmann, Berit L ^a  

^a The Capital Region   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Gender differences; Health consequences; Prevalence; Psychosocial

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859215785     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444307627.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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