Socioeconomic status, financial hardship and measured obesity in older adults: A cross-sectional study of the EPIC-Norfolk cohort

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Conklin, Annalijn I ^a,b   Forouhi, Nita G ^a   Suhrcke, Marc ^b,c   Surtees, Paul ^b   Wareham, Nicholas J ^a,b   Monsivais, Pablo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Body mass index; Elderly; EPIC Norfolk; Financial hardship; Healthy ageing; Socioeconomic status; Waist circumference

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84886738071     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-1039     Document Type: Article

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