Sociodemographic and behavioural factors associated with body mass index among men and women in Nairobi slums: AWI-Gen Project

Global Health Action

Volumn 11, Issue sup2, 2018, Pages

  Asiki, Gershim ^a,b   Mohamed, Shukri F ^a   Wambui, David ^a   Wainana, Caroline ^a   Muthuri, Stella ^a   Ramsay, Michelle ^c   Kyobutungi, Catherine ^a  

^a AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Kenya)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

associated factors; Body Mass Index (BMI); Kenya; Nairobi; urban slums

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POVERTY; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP; SOCIOECONOMICS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; POVERTY AREAS; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 85049567005     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2018.1470738     Document Type: Article

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