The impact of smoking and pre-existing illness on the relationship between body-mass index and mortality

Nutrition Research

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1259-1277

  Stevens, June ^a,b   Juhaeri, ^a   Cai, Jianwen ^a   Thun, Michael ^c  

^a IL   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina   (United States)

^c AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confounding; Illness; Mortality; Obesity; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBESITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033804713     PISSN: 02715317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0271-5317(00)00216-5     Document Type: Article

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