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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on April 9, 2009
American Journal of Epidemiology 2009 169(10):1277; doi:10.1093/aje/kwp057
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American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2009. Published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

BOOK REVIEW

Obesity Epidemiology

By Frank Hu

Emily E. Ventura and Michael I. Goran

Childhood Obesity Research Center, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033

(e-mail: goran@usc.edu)

ISBN 978-0-19-531291-1, Oxford University Press, New York, New York (Telephone: 800-445-9714, Fax: 919-677-1303, E-mail: custserv.us@oup.com), 2008, 498 pp., $59.99 (Hardback)

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Obesity Epidemiology, written by Frank Hu along with invited contributors, is an impressive overview of the methodology used in the field, the complex web of factors that contribute to obesity, and the many consequences associated with the rising epidemic. An internationally recognized leader in obesity research who is based at Harvard University, Hu has created an outstanding reference volume and succeeded in imparting his expertise in a . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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