Effects of obesity and smoking on U.S. life expectancy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 362, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 855-857

  Peto, Richard ^a   Whitlock, Gary ^a   Jha, Prabhat ^b  

^a CLINICAL TRIAL SERVICE UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre for Global Health Research   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; HUMAN; LETTER; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOBACCO; UNITED STATES; FORECASTING; MALE; NOTE; RISK; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS;

BODY MASS INDEX; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; OBESITY; RISK; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77649329892     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1000079     Document Type: Letter

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