Original article underweight, overweight and obesity: Relationships with mortality in the 13-year follow-up of the Canada Fitness Survey

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 916-920

  Katzmarzyk, Peter T ^a   Craig, Cora L ^b   Bouchard, Claude ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute   (Canada)

^c PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiposity; Canada Fitness Survey; Death; Obesity; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT DISORDER; CANADA; FEMALE; FITNESS; HAZARD; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; CANADA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0034884462     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(01)00356-0     Document Type: Article

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