Obesity: The gateway to ill health - An EASO position statement on a rising public health, clinical and scientific challenge in Europe

Obesity Facts

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 117-120

  Frühbeck, Gema ^a   Toplak, Hermann ^b   Woodward, Euan ^c   Yumuk, Volkan ^d   Maislos, Max ^e   Oppert, Jean Michel ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO)   (United Kingdom)

^d ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^f PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84875657566     PISSN: 16624025     EISSN: 16624033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000350627     Document Type: Article

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