Body-mass index and mortality among white adults [6]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 364, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 781-783

  Welborn, Timothy A ^a   Dhaliwal, Satvinder S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; BODY HEIGHT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; NOTE; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; MALNUTRITION; SHORT STATURE; SOCIAL STATUS; ABDOMINAL OBESITY;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; MORTALITY; OVERWEIGHT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; OBESITY; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 79951984783     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1014730     Document Type: Letter

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