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The number of years lived with obesity and the risk of all-cause and cause-specific mortality
Author(s) -
Asnawi Abdullah,
Rory Wolfe,
Johannes Stoelwinder,
Maximilian de Courten,
Christopher Stevenson,
Heidi Walls,
Anna Peeters
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyr018
Subject(s) - medicine , obesity , hazard ratio , body mass index , confidence interval , proportional hazards model , framingham heart study , risk factor , cohort , cause of death , cohort study , disease , framingham risk score
The role of the duration of obesity as an independent risk factor for mortality has not been investigated. The aim of this study was to analyse the association between the duration of obesity and the risk of mortality.

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