Overweight, obesity, and all-cause mortality - Reply

JAMA

Volumn 309, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 1681-1682

  Flegal, Katherine M ^a   Kit, Brian K ^a   Graubard, Barry I ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ASIAN; BODY MASS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; EUROPE; HEART DISEASE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NORTH AMERICA; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOKING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; FEMALE; MALE; NOTE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT;

EID: 84876582295     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2013.3101     Document Type: Letter

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