Body weight in early and mid-adulthood in relation to subsequent coronary heart disease mortality: 80-Year follow-up in the Harvard alumni study

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 1768-1770

  Gray, Linsay ^a   Lee, I Min ^b,c   Sesso, Howard D ^b,c   Batty, G David ^a,d,e  

^a MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION FOR NURSING PRACTICE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING HABIT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY DISEASE; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 80054904632     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.486     Document Type: Article

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