Obesity and cardio-metabolic risk factors in an urban and rural population in the Ashanti region-Ghana: A comparative cross-sectional study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Obirikorang, Christian ^a   Osakunor, Derick Nii Mensah ^a   Anto, Enoch Odame ^a   Amponsah, Samuel Opoku ^b   Adarkwa, Opei Kwafo ^c  

^a KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^b School of Medicine and Dentistry   (Ghana)

^c KOMFO ANOKYE TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GHANA; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST TO HEIGHT RATIO; AGED; BLOOD; BODY CONSTITUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LIFE STYLE; LIPIDS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84934888698     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129494     Document Type: Article

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