Size still matters.but not in the way we once thought

The Lancet

Volumn 377, Issue 9771, 2011, Pages 1051-1052

  Huxley, Rachel R ^a,b   Jacobs Jr , David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORTALITY; NOTE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

EID: 79953163337     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60239-0     Document Type: Note

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