Does fitness completely explain the obesity paradox?

American Heart Journal

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-3

  Lavie, Carl J ^a,b   De Schutter, Alban ^a,c   Patel, Dharmendrakumar A ^a   Milani, Richard V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF COLORECTAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE; FITNESS; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL;

BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; REST; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84879783112     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2013.03.026     Document Type: Editorial

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