Excess weight and the risk of incident coronary heart disease among men and women

Obesity

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 377-383

  Flint, Alan J ^a   Hu, Frank B ^a,b   Glynn, Robert J ^a,b   Caspard, Hervé ^c   Manson, Joann E ^a,b   Willett, Walter C ^a,b   Rimm, Eric B ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 75749124333     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2009.223     Document Type: Article

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