Overweight, obesity, and mortality in a large prospective cohort of persons 50 to 71 years old

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 355, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 763-778

  Adams, Kenneth F ^a,d   Schatzkin, Arthur ^a   Harris, Tamara B ^b   Kipnis, Victor ^a   Mouw, Traci ^a   Ballard Barbash, Rachel ^a   Hollenbeck, Albert ^c   Leitzmann, Michael F ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^c AARP   (United States)

^d Nutritional Epidemiology Branch   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; RISK FACTORS; THINNESS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33747870163     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa055643     Document Type: Article

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