Time spent traveling in motor vehicles and its association with overweight and abdominal obesity in Colombian adults who do not own a car

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 402-404

  Flórez Pregonero, Alberto ^a   Gómez, Luis Fernando ^a   Parra, Diana C ^b   Cohen, Daniel D ^c,d   Arango Paternina, Carlos Mario ^b   Lobelo, Felipe ^e  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Motor vehicles; Obesity; Sedentary behaviors; Travel time

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL PHYSICAL ACTIVITY QUESTIONNAIRE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR VEHICLE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; TIME; TRAVEL; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AUTOMOBILES; BODY MASS INDEX; COLOMBIA; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; OVERWEIGHT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL CLASS; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL; URBAN POPULATION; WALKING;

EID: 84861781727     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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