Trajectories of body mass index and their associations with mortality among older Japanese: Do they differ from those of Western populations?

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 182, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 597-605

  Murayama, Hiroshi ^a,b   Liang, Jersey ^a   Bennett, Joan M ^a   Shaw, Benjamin A ^c   Botoseneanu, Anda ^d,e   Kobayashi, Erika ^b   Fukaya, Taro ^b   Shinkai, Shoji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

body mass index; Japan; mortality; older adults; trajectories

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BODY MASS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MORTALITY; OBESITY; SURVIVAL; TRAJECTORY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JAPAN; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

JAPAN;

AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY;

EID: 84943560484     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwv107     Document Type: Article

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