Body mass index and cardiovascular disease in the Asia-Pacific Region: An overview of 33 cohorts involving 310 000 participants

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 751-758

  Ni Mhurchu, C ^a   Rodgers, A ^a   Pan, W H ^b,e   Gu, D F ^c,e   Woodward, M ^d   Parag, V ^e   Lin, R ^e   Bennett, D A ^e   Vander Hoorn, S ^e   Barzi, F ^e   MacMahon, S ^e   Lam, T H ^e   Lawes, C ^e   Suh, I ^e   Ueshima, H ^e   Okayama, A ^e   Maegawa, H ^e   Aoki, N ^e   Nakamura, M ^e   Kubo, N ^e   Yamada, T ^e   Wu, Z S ^e   Yao, C H ^e   Liu, L S ^f   Xie, J X ^f   Knuiman, M W ^e   Christensen, H ^g   Wu, X G ^h   Zhou, J ^e   Yu, X H ^e   Tamakoshi, A ⁱ   Wu, Z L ^e   Chen, L Q ^e   Shan, G L ^e   Duan, X F ^e   Norton, R ^e   Whitlock, G ^e   Jackson, R ^e   Fujishima, M ^e   Kiyohara, Y ^e   Iwamoto, H ^e   Woo, J ^e   Ho, S ^e   Hong, Z ^e   Huang, M S ^e   Zhou, B ^e   Fuh, J L ^e   Kita, Y ^e   Choudhury, S R ^e   Jee, S H ^e   Kim, I S ^e   Giles, G ^e   Hashimoto, T ^e   Sakata, K ^e   Imai, Y ^e   Ohkubo, T ^e   Hozawa, A ^e   Jamrozik, K ^e   Hobbs, M ^e   Broadhurst, R ^e   Nakachi, K ^e   Fang, X H ^e   Li, S C ^e   Yang, Q D ^e   Chen, Z M ^e   Tanaka, H ^e   Nozaki, A ^e   Horibe, H ^e   Matsutani, Y ^e   Kagaya, M ^e   Hughes, K ^e   Lee, J ^e   Heng, D ^e   Zhou, B F ^e   Zhang, H Y ^e,e   Shimamoto, K ^e   Saitoh, S ^e   Li, Z Z ^e   He, Y ^e   Yao, S X ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Institute of Biomedical Science   (Taiwan)

^c FUWAI HOSPITAL   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e Beijing Steelworkers ^*

^f Civil Service Workers   (China)

^g Seven Cities Cohorts   (Australia)

^h Guangzhou Occupational   (China)

ⁱ Civil Service Workers

Author keywords

Asia; Body mass index; Cardiovascular disease; Cohort study; Obesity; Overview

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ASIA; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK;

EID: 4644341787     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyh163     Document Type: Article

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