Monitoring the obesity epidemic into the 21st century - Weighing the evidence

Obesity Facts

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 561-565

  Lissner, Lauren ^a   Visscher, Tommy L S ^b   Rissanen, Aila ^c   Heitmann, Berit L ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b VU Windesheim   (Netherlands)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d The Capital Region   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ERROR; OBESITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; REVIEW; SAMPLING BIAS; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL BIAS; TREND STUDY;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; OBESITY;

EID: 84891096340     PISSN: 16624025     EISSN: 16624033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000357539     Document Type: Review

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