Establishing the nadir of the body mass index-mortality relationship: A case study

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 440, 1997, Pages 1312-1319

  Durazo Arvizu, Ramón ^a   McGee, Daniel ^b   Li, Zhaohai ^b   Cooper, Richard ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Changepoint; Logistic regression; Mortality; Obesity; Quetelet index

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGY; BODY WEIGHT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DIFFERENTIAL MORTALITY; ETHNIC GROUP; MORTALITY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AGE FACTORS; AMERICAS; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGY; BODY WEIGHT; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DIFFERENTIAL MORTALITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; MORTALITY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AMERICAS; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGY; BODY WEIGHT; CULTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; MORTALITY; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0040844828     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10473652     Document Type: Article

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