Waist circumference (WC), body mass index (BMI), and disability among older adults in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC)

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Nam, Sanggon ^a   Kuo, Yong Fang ^a,b   Markides, Kyriakos S ^a   Al Snih, Soham ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

BMI; Disability; Latin America; Obesity; Older adults; The Caribbean; WC

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STROKE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADIPOSITY; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CARIBBEAN REGION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK; SOCIAL CLASS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84864956470     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: 18726976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2012.04.006     Document Type: Article

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