Epidemiologic transitions: Migration and development of obesity and cardiometabolic disease in the developing world

Nestle Nutrition Institute Workshop Series

Volumn 71, Issue , 2013, Pages 147-156

  Forrester, Terrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIET; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; WEIGHT GAIN;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIET; ENERGY INTAKE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84886008828     PISSN: 16642147     EISSN: 16642155     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000342599     Document Type: Conference Paper

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