Overweight, obesity, and all-cause mortality [3]

JAMA

Volumn 309, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 1680-1681

  Abhyankar, Swapna ^a   McDonald, Clement J ^a  

^a National Library of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; FEMALE; MALE; NOTE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT;

EID: 84876545064     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2013.3092     Document Type: Letter

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