Waist circumference, body mass index, and risk for stroke in older people: A 15-year longitudinal population study of 70-year-olds

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1510-1518

  Dey, Debashish K ^a   Rothenberg, Elisabet ^a   Sundh, Valter ^a   Bosaeus, Ingvar ^a   Steen, Bertil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Older people; Stroke; Waist circumference

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; SWEDEN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLESTEROL; CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 0036719999     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2002.50406.x     Document Type: Article

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