Obesity

Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Volumn 3, Issue , 2017, Pages

  González Muniesa, Pedro ^a,b,c   Mártinez González, Miguel Angel ^a,b,c,d   Hu, Frank B ^d   Després, Jean Pierre ^e   Matsuzawa, Yuji ^f   Loos, Ruth J F ^g   Moreno, Luis A ^c,h   Bray, George A ⁱ   Martinez, J Alfredo ^a,b,c,j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b IdiSNA Navarra Institute for Health Research   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f SUMITOMO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^g MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

ⁱ PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^j IMDEA FOOD INSTITUTE   (Spain)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; CALORIC RESTRICTION; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ENERGY BALANCE; EPIDEMIC; EXERCISE; FAMILY HISTORY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEREDITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LIPID STORAGE; MACRONUTRIENT; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT GAIN; GENETICS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; OVERWEIGHT; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 85020513725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2056676X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrdp.2017.34     Document Type: Article

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