Body Mass Index and Self-Perception of Overweight and Obesity in Rural, Urban and Rural-to-Urban Migrants: PERU MIGRANT Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Loret de Mola, Christian ^a,b,c   Pillay, Timesh D ^a,d   Diez Canseco, Francisco ^a   Gilman, Robert H ^a,e,f   Smeeth, Liam ^a,g   Miranda, J Jaime ^a,h  

^a CRONICAS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE IN CHRONIC DISEASES   (Peru)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^c Grupo Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Epidemiológicas   (Colombia)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f ASOCIACIÓN BENÉFICA PRISMA   (Peru)

^g LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; OBESITY; RURAL POPULATION; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; URBANIZATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PERU; POVERTY; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PERCEPTION; PERU; POVERTY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84870372554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050252     Document Type: Article

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