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Incidences of obesity and extreme obesity among US adults: findings from the 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

BACKGROUND: No recent national studies have provided incidence data for obesity, nor have they examined the association between incidence and selected risk factors. The purpose of this study is to examine the incidence of obesity (body mass index [BMI] ≥ 30.0 kg/m(2)) and extreme obesity (BMI ≥ 40.0...

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Autores principales: Pan, Liping, Freedman, David S, Gillespie, Cathleen, Park, Sohyun, Sherry, Bettylou
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3217879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22004984
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-9-56