BMI, weight stability and mortality among adults without clinical co-morbidities: A 22-year mortality follow-up in the finnish twin cohort

Obesity Facts

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 344-351

  Korkeila, Maarit ^a   Rissanen, Aila ^b   Sørensen, Thorkild I A ^c   Kaprio, Jaakko ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c The Capital Region   (Denmark)

^d NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Body weight; Cause of death; Discordant twins; Mortality; Weight changes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; TWINS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY DISEASE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 76749142892     PISSN: 16624025     EISSN: 16624033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000261416     Document Type: Article

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