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Body-Mass Index and Mortality among 1.46 Million White Adults

Author(s) -

Amy Berrington de González,

Patricia Hartge,

James R. Cerhan,

Alan Flint,

Lindsay M. Hannan,

Robert J. MacInnis,

Steven C. Moore,

Geoffrey S. Tobias,

Hoda AntonCulver,

Laura Beane Freeman,

W. Lawrence Beeson,

Sandra Clipp,

Dallas R. English,

Aaron R. Folsom,

D. Michal Freedman,

Graham G. Giles,

Niclas Håkansson,

Katherine D. Henderson,

Judith Hoffman–Bolton,

Jane A. Hoppin,

Karen L. Koenig,

I-Min Lee,

Martha S. Linet,

Yikyung Park,

Gaia Pocobelli,

Arthur Schatzkin,

Howard D. Sesso,

Elisabete Weiderpass,

Bradley J. Willcox,

Alicja Wolk,

Anne ZeleniuchJacquotte,

Walter C. Willett,

Michael J. Thun

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

new england journal of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889

H-Index - 1030

eISSN - 1533-4406

pISSN - 0028-4793

DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa1000367

Subject(s) - medicine , body mass index , hazard ratio , confidence interval , demography , proportional hazards model , prospective cohort study , marital status , population , environmental health , sociology

A high body-mass index (BMI, the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters) is associated with increased mortality from cardiovascular disease and certain cancers, but the precise relationship between BMI and all-cause mortality remains uncertain.

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