Abdominal vs. overall obesity among women in a nutrition transition context: geographic and socio-economic patterns of abdominal-only obesity in Tunisia

BACKGROUND: Most assessments of the burden of obesity in nutrition transition contexts rely on body mass index (BMI) only, even though abdominal adiposity might be specifically predictive of adverse health outcomes. In Tunisia, a typical country of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, whe...

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Autores principales: Traissac, Pierre, Pradeilles, Rebecca, El Ati, Jalila, Aounallah-Skhiri, Hajer, Eymard-Duvernay, Sabrina, Gartner, Agnès, Béji, Chiraz, Bougatef, Souha, Martin-Prével, Yves, Kolsteren, Patrick, Delpeuch, Francis, Ben Romdhane, Habiba, Maire, Bernard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4350904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25745363
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12963-015-0035-3

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