Weight loss and premature death: The 1946 british birth cohort study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Albanese, Emiliano ^a   Strand, Bjørn Heine ^b   Guralnik, Jack M ^c   Patel, Kushang V ^d   Kuh, Diana ^e   Hardy, Rebecca ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREMATURE MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY, PREMATURE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84907033917     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086282     Document Type: Article

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