Relationship between perceived body weight and body mass index based on self- reported height and weight among university students: a cross-sectional study in seven European countries

BACKGROUND: Despite low rates of obesity, many university students perceive themselves as overweight, especially women. This is of concern, because inappropriate weight perceptions can lead to unhealthy behaviours including eating disorders. METHODS: We used the database from the Cross National Stud...

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Autores principales: Mikolajczyk, Rafael T, Maxwell, Annette E, El Ansari, Walid, Stock, Christiane, Petkeviciene, Janina, Guillen-Grima, Francisco
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2824734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20105333
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-40

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