Open AccessAbdominal Adiposity and Mortality in Chinese Women
Author(s) -
Xianglan Zhang
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinte.167.9.886
Subject(s) - medicine , body mass index , overweight , demography , waist , waist–hip ratio , confidence interval , prospective cohort study , anthropometry , confounding , national death index , standardized mortality ratio , abdominal obesity , population , relative risk , cohort study , obesity , hazard ratio , environmental health , sociology
Increased abdominal adiposity has been linked to an increase in mortality in populations where many are overweight or obese; it is unclear whether the same is true in relatively lean populations.
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