Longitudinal study of variation in body mass index in middle-aged UK females

Age

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1285-1294

  Livshits, Gregory ^a,b   Malkin, Ida ^b   Williams, Frances M K ^a   Hart, Deborah J ^a   Hakim, Alan ^c   Spector, Timothy D ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c WHIPPS CROSS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agedependent patterns; BMI; Curve fitting; Follow up; Longitudinal; Weight gain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BRITISH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84867579629     PISSN: 01619152     EISSN: 15744647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11357-011-9299-0     Document Type: Article

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