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Gender and the Burden of Disease Attributable to Obesity
Author(s) -
Peter Muennig,
Erica I. Lubetkin,
Haomiao Jia,
Peter Franks
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2005.068874
Subject(s) - overweight , life expectancy , medicine , obesity , body mass index , years of potential life lost , demography , quality of life (healthcare) , gerontology , environmental health , national health interview survey , burden of disease , disease , disease burden , quality adjusted life year , relative risk , population , confidence interval , cost effectiveness , risk analysis (engineering) , nursing , sociology
We estimated the burden of disease in the United States attributable to obesity by gender, with life expectancy, quality-adjusted life expectancy, years of life lost annually, and quality-adjusted life years lost annually as outcome measures.

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