How smoking affects the proportion of deaths attributable to obesity: Assessing the role of relative risks and weight distributions

BMJ Open

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Stokes, Andrew ^a   Preston, Samuel H ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; OBESITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMORBIDITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NUTRITION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OBESITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84960376356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009232     Document Type: Article

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