Medical consequences of obesity

Medicine (United Kingdom)

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 88-93

  Finer, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; cardiovascular disease; diabetes; dyslipidaemia; heart failure; hyperinsulinaemia; hypertension; non alcoholic; sleep apnoea syndrome; steatohepatitis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BREAST CANCER; COLON CANCER; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; DYSPNEA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; GALLSTONE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GOUT; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOVENTILATION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MIGRAINE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; OBESITY; OLIGOMENORRHEA; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PSORIASIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SOCIAL STIGMA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

EID: 84988271970     PISSN: 13573039     EISSN: 13654357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mpmed.2014.11.003     Document Type: Review

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