Editorial comment: Weight loss and mortality in the elderly: Separating cause and effect

Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 268, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 103-105

  Richman, Erin L ^a   Stampfer, Meir J ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; ELDERLY CARE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; NOTE;

ADIPOSITY; AGED; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSALITY; HUMANS; MORTALITY; OBESITY; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 77954342679     PISSN: 09546820     EISSN: 13652796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2796.2010.02227.x     Document Type: Editorial

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