Body Mass Index and Mortality in Non-Hispanic Black Adults in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Park, Yikyung ^a   Hartge, Patricia ^a   Moore, Steven C ^a   Kitahara, Cari M ^a   Hollenbeck, Albert R ^b   de Gonzalez, Amy Berrington ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b AARP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MORTALITY; NON HISPANIC BLACKS IN THE NATIONAL INSITUTE OF HEALTH AARP DIET AND HEALTH STUDY; OBESITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIET; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK; RISK FACTOR;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIET; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84870256851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050091     Document Type: Article

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