Does midlife obesity really lower dementia risk?

The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 498-499

  Strand, Bjørn H ^a,b,c   Langballe, Ellen M ^b   Rosness, Tor A ^c   Engedal, Knut ^b   Bjertness, Espen ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^b Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Ageing and Health   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; AGE; BODY MASS; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; LIFESPAN; LOW RISK PATIENT; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING; SURVIVAL RATE; UNDERWEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; MALE;

BODY MASS INDEX; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; THINNESS;

EID: 84934286423     PISSN: 22138587     EISSN: 22138595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-8587(15)00213-2     Document Type: Letter

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