A meta-analysis but not a systematic review: an evaluation of the Global BMI Mortality Collaboration

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 88, Issue , 2017, Pages 21-29

  Flegal, Katherine M ^a   Ioannidis, John P A ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Body mass index; Epidemiologic methods; Global BMI Mortality Collaboration; Meta analysis; Mortality

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); META ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANT DATA; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RISK; NOTE; OBESITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LITERATURE;

BODY MASS INDEX; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MORTALITY; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 85019384816     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.04.007     Document Type: Note

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