Obesity and mortality: Watch your waist, not just your weight

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 875-876

  Hu, Frank B ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COMORBIDITY; EDITORIAL; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; WAIST HIP RATIO;

BODY MASS INDEX; HUMANS; OBESITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 34248536543     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.167.9.875     Document Type: Editorial

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