Age- and gender-specific BMI in terms of the lowest mortality in Japanese general population

Obesity

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2348-2355

  Matsuo, Tomoaki ^a,e   Sairenchi, Toshimi ^a,b   Iso, Hiroyasu ^c   Irie, Fujiko ^d   Tanaka, Kiyoji ^a,e   Fukasawa, Nobuko ^a   Ota, Hitoshi ^a   Muto, Takashi ^b  

^a Ibaraki Health Service Association   (Japan)

^b DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Ibaraki Prefectural Office   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 53849109503     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2008.342     Document Type: Article

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