BMI and all-cause mortality among Japanese older adults: Findings from the Japan collaborative cohort study

Obesity

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 362-369

  Tamakoshi, Akiko ^a   Yatsuya, Hiroshi ^b   Lin, Yingsong ^a   Tamakoshi, Koji ^c   Kondo, Takaaki ^c   Suzuki, Sadao ^d   Yagyu, Kiyoko ^a   Kikuchi, Shogo ^a  

^a AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOPERATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; CAUSE OF DEATH; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; THINNESS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 75749136880     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2009.190     Document Type: Article

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