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Prevalence of obesity and overweight and associated factors among financial institution workers in Accra Metropolis, Ghana: a cross sectional study

BACKGROUND: Certain professions are associated with low physical activity. Workers in such professions spend the most part of their adult working lives less engaged in physical activity if they don’t consciously exercise outside of working hours. This increases their risk of obesity and its associat...

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Autores principales:	Addo, Prince N. O., Nyarko, Kofi M., Sackey, Samuel O., Akweongo, Patricia, Sarfo, Bismark
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2015
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4619450/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26499885 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1590-1

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