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Factors Associated with Excessive Body Fat in Men and Women: Cross-Sectional Data from Black South Africans Living in a Rural Community and an Urban Township

OBJECTIVE: To determine the factors associated with excessive body fat among black African men and women living in rural and urban communities of South Africa. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional analysis of data from the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study, Cape Town, South Africa...

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Autores principales:	Okop, Kufre Joseph, Levitt, Naomi, Puoane, Thandi
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2015
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4598161/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26447880 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140153

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