Long-term mortality in a cohort of severely obese persons in Italy

Obesity

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1920-1925

  Mirabelli, Dario ^a   Chiusolo, Monica ^a   Ferrante, Daniela ^b   Balzola, Franco ^c   Merletti, Franco ^a   Petroni, Maria L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBID OBESITY; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 48749087614     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2008.305     Document Type: Article

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