BMI and all cause mortality: Systematic review and non-linear dose-response meta-analysis of 230 cohort studies with 3.74 million deaths among 30.3 million participants

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 353, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Aune, Dagfinn ^a,b   Sen, Abhijit ^a,d   Prasad, Manya ^c   Norat, Teresa ^b   Janszky, Imre ^a   Tonstad, Serena ^c   Romundstad, Pål ^a   Vatten, Lars J ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c POST GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^d ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LOW RISK PATIENT; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WEIGHT REDUCTION; BODY WEIGHT; RISK FACTOR;

BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; RISK FACTORS; THINNESS;

EID: 84969776591     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.i2156     Document Type: Review

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