Black-white differences in social and economic consequences of obesity

OBJECTIVE: To investigate social and economic effects of obesity for black and white females, and to explore possible explanations for race differences in obesity effects. SUBJECTS: 1354 non-Hispanic black and 3097 non-Hispanic, non-black, women aged 25-33y in 1990 from the National Longitudinal Sur...

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Volume:	23
Main Author:	Averett, S Korenman, S
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	BASINGSTOKE STOCKTON PRESS 01.02.1999 Nature Publishing
published in:	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 166 - 173
Data of publication:	1999-02-01
ISSN:	0307-0565 1476-5497
EISSN:	1476-5497
Discipline:	Medicine Diet & Clinical Nutrition Recreation & Sports
Subjects:	Endocrinology & Metabolism Life Sciences & Biomedicine Nutrition & Dietetics Science & Technology Obesity Biological and medical sciences Metabolic diseases Medical sciences United States North America America race YOUNG ADULTHOOD OVERWEIGHT BEAUTY ADOLESCENCE socioeconomic status obesity Human Obesity Ethnic origin Socioeconomic status Nutrition disorder Negroid Adult Female Economic impact Caucasoid Nutritional status Comparative study Social impact
Online Access:	Fulltext
CODEN:	IJOBDP
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 1999 Web of Knowledge Science Citation Index Expanded Web of Science Web of Science - Science Citation Index Expanded - 1999 Pascal-Francis CrossRef Database information Databases - DBIS