The impact of excess body weight at the hospital frontline

BMC Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Renehan, Andrew G ^a   Buchan, Iain E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Data linkage; Hospital admission rates

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; NOTE; OBESITY; SMOKING; UNITED KINGDOM; FEMALE; TRENDS;

BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; PATIENT ADMISSION;

EID: 84899130243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-12-64     Document Type: Note

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