Mortality and cardiac and vascular outcomes in extremely obese women

JAMA

Volumn 296, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 79-86

  McTigue, Kathleen ^a   Larson, Joseph C ^c   Valoski, Alice ^b   Burke, Greg ^d   Kotchen, Jane ^e   Lewis, Cora E ^f   Stefanick, Marcia L ^g   Van Horn, Linda ^h   Kuller, Lewis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^f University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NEGRO; OBESITY; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORBID OBESITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OBESITY, MORBID; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745612500     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.296.1.79     Document Type: Article

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