Executive function and negative eating behaviors in severely obese African Americans

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 328-334

  Sims, Regina C ^a   Bennett, Nomi Kaie ^b   Mwendwa, Denee T ^b   Ali, Mana K ^b   Levy, Shellie Anne T ^b   Callender, Clive O ^c   Campbell, Alfonso L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Eating behaviors; Executive functioning; Inhibition; Obesity; Set shifting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONTROL; STROOP TEST; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84903997083     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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