Prevalence of body mass index lower than 16 among women in low- and middle-income countries

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 314, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 2164-2171

  Razak, Fahad ^a,b,c   Corsi, Daniel J ^c,d   Slutsky, Arthur S ^a,b   Kurpad, Anura ^e   Berkman, Lisa ^c   Laupacis, Andreas ^a,b   Subramanian, S V ^c  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

^d OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALBANIA; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BODY MASS; BOLIVIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EGYPT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MADAGASCAR; MIDDLE AGED; PERU; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SENEGAL; SIERRA LEONE; SOCIAL STATUS; SWAZILAND; TIMOR-LESTE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URBAN AREA; BODY WEIGHT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ODDS RATIO; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; THINNESS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84948137412     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2015.15666     Document Type: Article

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