Morbid obesity in Taiwan: Prevalence, trends, associated social demographics, and lifestyle factors

OBJECTIVE: Obesity is one of the most important public health issues worldwide. Moreover, an extreme phenotype, morbid obesity (MO) has insidiously become a global problem. Therefore, we aimed to document the prevalence trend and to unveil the epidemiological characteristics of MO in Taiwan. METHODS...

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Autores principales: Chang, Heng-Cheng, Yang, Hsin-Chou, Chang, Hsing-Yi, Yeh, Chih-Jung, Chen, Hsin-Hung, Huang, Kuo-Chin, Pan, Wen-Harn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5289420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28152059
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0169577

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5289420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28152059
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0169577

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