Trends in the skewness of the body mass index distribution among urban Australian adults, 1980 to 2007

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 26-33

  Peeters, Anna ^a   Gearon, Emma ^a   Backholer, Kathryn ^a   Carstensen, Bendix ^b  

^a BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b STENO DIABETES CENTER   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Obesity; Trends

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIAN; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREND STUDY; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT GAIN; AGE; AUSTRALIA; BODY COMPOSITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; OVERWEIGHT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUSTRALIA; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEX FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84923278951     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: 18732585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2014.10.008     Document Type: Article

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