Changes in waist circumference and mortality in middle-aged men and women

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1-8

  Berentzen, Tina Landsvig ^a   Jakobsen, Marianne Uhre ^b,c   Halkjaer, Jytte ^d   Tjønneland, Anne ^d   Overvad, Kim ^b,c   Sørensen, Thorkild I A ^a  

^a The Capital Region   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT GAIN; ABDOMINAL OBESITY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

BODY MASS INDEX; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 77958553265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013097     Document Type: Article

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