Is disability obesity's price of longevity?

JAMA

Volumn 298, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 2066-2067

  Gregg, Edward W ^a   Guralnik, Jack M ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABILITY; EDITORIAL; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LONGEVITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; COST OF ILLNESS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABLED PERSON; MORBIDITY; NOTE; RISK;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; COST OF ILLNESS; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; RISK;

EID: 35848952266     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.298.17.2066     Document Type: Editorial

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