Impact of obesity, overweight and underweight on life expectancy and lifetime medical expenditures: The Ohsaki Cohort Study

BMJ Open

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Nagai, Masato ^a   Kuriyama, Shinichi ^a   Kakizaki, Masako ^a   Ohmori Matsuda, Kaori ^a   Sone, Toshimasa ^a   Hozawa, Atsushi ^a,b   Kawado, Miyuki ^c   Hashimoto, Shuji ^c   Tsuji, Ichiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESPAN; LIFETIME MEDICAL EXPENDITURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNDERWEIGHT; WEIGHT CONTROL;

EID: 84862205905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-000940     Document Type: Article

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