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Rapid increases in obesity in Jamaica, compared to Nigeria and the United States

BACKGROUND: Weight gain in adulthood is now common in many populations, ranging from modest gains in developing countries to a substantial percentage of body weight in some Western societies. To examine the rate of change across the spectrum of low to high-income countries we compared rates of weigh...

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Autores principales: Durazo-Arvizu, Ramón A, Luke, Amy, Cooper, Richard S, Cao, Guichan, Dugas, Lara, Adeyemo, Adebowale, Boyne, Michael, Forrester, Terrence
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2390537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18433493
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-133