High rates of obesity and non-communicable diseases predicted across Latin America

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Webber, Laura ^a   Kilpi, Fanny ^a   Marsh, Tim ^a   Rtveladze, Ketevan ^a   Brown, Martin ^a   McPherson, Klim ^b  

^a National Heart Forum   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; NEOPLASM; OBESITY; PREDICTION; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STROKE; TREND STUDY;

BODY MASS INDEX; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBESITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865060665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039589     Document Type: Article

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