Twenty-five year trends in body mass index by education and income in Finland

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Prättälä, Ritva ^a   Sippola, Risto ^a   Lahti Koski, Marjaana ^b   Laaksonen, Mikko T ^c   Mäkinen, Tomi ^a   Roos, Eva ^c  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b Suomen Sydanliitto ry   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

25 year time trends; Body mass index; Education; Finnish men and women; Income

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; INCOME; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84871399682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-936     Document Type: Article

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