Reduced mortality associated with body mass index (BMI) in African Americans relative to caucasians

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 24-30

  Sanchez, Ana M ^a   Reed, Danielle R ^a   Price, R Arlen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Body Mass Index; Mortality; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OBESITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034541083     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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