BMI, all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Chinese Singaporean men and women: The Singapore Chinese health study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Odegaard, Andrew O ^a   Pereira, Mark A ^a   Koh, Woon Puay ^b   Gross, Myron D ^a   Duval, Sue ^a   Yu, Mimi C ^a   Yuan, Jian Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGAPORE; SMOKING; AGED; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SINGAPORE; SMOKING;

EID: 78649729033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014000     Document Type: Article

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