Body weight changes and outpatient medical care utilisation: Results of the MONICA/KORA cohorts S3/F3 and S4/F4;Veränderungen des körpergewichts und inanspruchnahme ambulanter medizinischer versorgung: Ergebnisse der MONICA/KORA-kohorten S3/F3 und S4/F4

GMS Psycho-Social-Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wolfenstetter, Silke B ^a   Menn, Petra ^a   Holle, Rolf ^a   Mielck, Andreas ^a   Meisinger, Christa ^a   von Lengerke, Thomas ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

And loss; Body mass index; Body weight maintenance; Cohort studies; Gain; Obesity; Outpatient physician utilisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874788139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18605214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3205/psm000087     Document Type: Article

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