Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults
Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities. This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity,4,5,6. Here we use 2,009 populati...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Springer
2019
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145701 |
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