Association of weight loss and weight fluctuation with mortality among japanese american men

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 333, Issue 11, 1995, Pages 686-692

  Iribarren, Carlos ^a   Sharp, Dan S ^a   Burchfiel, Cecil M ^a   Petrovitch, Helen ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; BODY MASS INDEX; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAWAII; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0029059819     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199509143331102     Document Type: Article

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