Change in body size and mortality: Results from the Melbourne Collaborative cohort study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Karahalios, Amalia ^a,b   Simpson, Julie A ^a,b   Baglietto, Laura ^a,b   MacInnis, Robert J ^b   Hodge, Allison M ^b   Giles, Graham G ^b   English, Dallas R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIP CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING HABIT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OBESITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 84903771292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099672     Document Type: Article

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