Long-Term Morbidity and Mortality of Overweight Adolescents: A Follow-up of the Harvard Growth Study of 1922 to 1935

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 327, Issue 19, 1992, Pages 1350-1355

  Must, Aviva ^a   Jacques, Paul F ^a   Dallal, Gerard E ^a   Bajema, Carl J ^b   Dietz, William H ^c  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ADULT; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY RISK; FEMALE; GOUT; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0026672612     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199211053271904     Document Type: Article

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