Methods of calculating deaths attributable to obesity

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 160, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 331-338

  Flegal, Katherine M ^a,b   Graubard, Barry I ^c   Williamson, David F ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Body mass index; Body weight; Cause of death; Epidemiologic methods; Risk; Statistics; Vital statistics

Indexed keywords

MORTALITY;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CALCULATION; DEATH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; OBESITY; RISK; STATISTICS; TECHNIQUE; VITAL STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSALITY; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EFFECT MODIFIERS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EPIDEMIOLOGIC MEASUREMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBESITY; RISK; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 3843141971     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwh222     Document Type: Article

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