Evaluating Race/Ethnicity in Moderating Baseline Cardiometabolic Risk and Body Composition Changes in North Carolina First-Year College Women

Women and Health

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 553-569

  Webb, Jennifer B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; body mass index; ethnicity; obesity; risk factors; socioeconomic status; weight

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; STUDENT; TIME; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY; URBAN POPULATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NORTH CAROLINA; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STUDENTS; TIME FACTORS; UNIVERSITIES; URBAN POPULATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO; WEIGHT GAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864646254     PISSN: 03630242     EISSN: 15410331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03630242.2012.694404     Document Type: Article

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