Obesity and 33-year follow-up for coronary heart disease and cancer mortality

Epidemiology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 378-383

  Carmelli, Dorit ^a   Zhang, Heping ^b   Swan, Gary E ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cohort study; Coronary heart disease; Fat distribution; Mortality; Obesity; Tree structured survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; CANCER MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CALIFORNIA; CHOLESTEROL; CLASSIFICATION; CORONARY DISEASE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TYPE A PERSONALITY;

EID: 0030918898     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199707000-00005     Document Type: Article

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