Lower mortality associated with overweight in the U.S. National Health Interview Survey: Is overweight protective?

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Zhiqiang ^a   Liu, Meina ^b   Pan, Tania ^a   Tong, Shilu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHITIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; AGE; AGED; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84958205867     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000002424     Document Type: Article

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