Race/ethnic and sex differentials in body mass among US adults.

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Published in Ethn Dis on January 01, 2004

Authors

Justin T Denney1, Patrick M Krueger, Richard G Rogers, Jason D Boardman

Author Affiliations

1: Population Program, Institute of Behavioral Science, and Department of Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0484, USA. denneyj@colorado.edu

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