Prevalence of obesity and body size perceptions in urban and rural Senegal: new insight on the epidemiological transition in West Africa

scientific article published on 26 October 2017

Prevalence of obesity and body size perceptions in urban and rural Senegal: new insight on the epidemiological transition in West Africa is …
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P356DOI10.5830/CVJA-2017-034
P932PMC publication ID5730727
P698PubMed publication ID29083431

P2093author name stringEmmanuel Cohen
Enguerran Macia
Priscilla Duboz
Gilles Boetsch
Lamine Gueye
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P433issue5
P921main subjectobesityQ12174
SenegalQ1041
urbanizationQ161078
West AfricaQ4412
P304page(s)324-330
P577publication date2017-10-26
P1433published inCardiovascular Journal of AfricaQ26830987
P1476titlePrevalence of obesity and body size perceptions in urban and rural Senegal: new insight on the epidemiological transition in West Africa
P478volume28

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