The role of obesity in exceptionally slow US mortality improvement

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 957-961

  Preston, Samuel H ^a   Vierboom, Yana C ^a   Stokes, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Life expectancy; Mortality; Obesity; Population health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NUTRITION; PREVALENCE; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85041213785     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1716802115     Document Type: Article

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