Should patients with chronic disease be told to gain weight? the obesity paradox and selection bias

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 334-336

  Lajous, Martín ^a,b   Banack, Hailey R ^c   Kaufman, Jay S ^c   Hernán, Miguel A ^b,d  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DIABETES MELLITUS; HIP FRACTURE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NOTE; OBESITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SELECTION BIAS; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT GAIN; COMPLICATION; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK FACTOR; TIME FACTOR;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES AS TOPIC; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS; SELECTION BIAS; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84930384410     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2014.10.043     Document Type: Editorial

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