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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...
Autores principales: | Durazo-Arvizu, Ramón A, Luke, Amy, Cooper, Richard S, Cao, Guichan, Dugas, Lara, Adeyemo, Adebowale, Boyne, Michael, Forrester, Terrence |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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