Overweight, underweight, and mortality: A prospective study of 48287 men and women

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 156, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 958-963

  Seidell, Jacob C ^a   Verschuren, W M Monique ^a   Van Leer, Edith M ^a   Kromhout, Daan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; OBESITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; THINNESS;

EID: 0029961095     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.156.9.958     Document Type: Article

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