Association between Body-Mass Index and Risk of Death in More Than 1 Million Asians
Author(s) -
Wei Zheng,
Dale McLerran,
Betsy Rolland,
Xianglan Zhang,
Manami Inoue,
Keitaro Matsuo,
Jiang He,
Prakash C. Gupta,
Kunnambath Ramadas,
Shoichiro Tsugane,
Fujiko Irie,
Akiko Tamakoshi,
Yu-Tang Gao,
Renwei Wang,
XiaoOu Shu,
Ichiro Tsuji,
Shinichi Kuriyama,
Hideo Tanaka,
Hiroshi Satoh,
ChienJen Chen,
JianMin Yuan,
KeunYoung Yoo,
Habibul Ahsan,
WenHarn Pan,
Dongfeng Gu,
Mangesh S. Pednekar,
Catherine Sauvaget,
Shizuka Sasazuki,
Toshimi Sairenchi,
Gong Yang,
Yong-Bing Xiang,
Masato Nagai,
Takeshi Suzuki,
Yoshikazu Nishino,
San–Lin You,
WoonPuay Koh,
Sue K. Park,
Yu Chen,
ChenYang Shen,
Mark Thornquist,
Ziding Feng,
Daehee Kang,
Paolo Boffetta,
John D. Potter
Publication year - 2011
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/nejmoa1010679
Subject(s) - medicine , body mass index , demography , confounding , cause of death , risk factor , proportional hazards model , obesity , disease , gerontology , sociology
Most studies that have evaluated the association between the body-mass index (BMI) and the risks of death from any cause and from specific causes have been conducted in populations of European origin.
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