Dynamic association of mortality hazard with body shape

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Krakauer, Nir Y ^a   Krakauer, Jesse C ^b  

^a City College of the City University of New York   (United States)

^b Alzohaili Medical Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; ANTHROPOMETRY; NUTRITION; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; HUMANS; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 84896796217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088793     Document Type: Article

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