Commentary: Obesity and cardiovascular disease risk among the young and old - Is BMI the wrong benchmark?

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 187-189

  Flint, Alan J ^a   Rimm, Eric B ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORONARY RISK; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MORTALITY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 32144442203     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyi298     Document Type: Article

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