Prevalence and determinants of overweight and obesity in old age in Germany

BACKGROUND: Mean body weight gradually increases with age. Yet, little data exists on the prevalence of excess weight in populations aged 80 years or older. Moreover, little is known about predictors of overweight and obesity in old age. Thus, the purpose of this study was: To present data on the pr...

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Publicado en:BMC Geriatr
Autores principales: Hajek, André, Lehnert, Thomas, Ernst, Annette, Lange, Carolin, Wiese, Birgitt, Prokein, Jana, Weyerer, Siegfried, Werle, Jochen, Pentzek, Michael, Fuchs, Angela, Luck, Tobias, Bickel, Horst, Mösch, Edelgard, Heser, Kathrin, Wagner, Michael, Maier, Wolfgang, Scherer, Martin, Riedel-Heller, Steffi G., König, Hans-Helmut
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Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4499904/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26170016
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-015-0081-5
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