The many paradoxes of our modern world: Is there really an obesity paradox or is it only a matter of adiposity assessment?

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 880-881

  Poirier, Paul ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL FAT; ABDOMINAL OBESITY; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNDERWEIGHT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPLICATION; MORTALITY;

BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL;

EID: 84948701625     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M15-2435     Document Type: Editorial

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