Open AccessBody Mass Index Categories and Mortality Risk in US Adults: The Effect of Overweight and Obesity on Advancing Death
Author(s) -
Luisa N. Borrell,
Lalitha Samuel
Publication year - 2014
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.2013.301597
Subject(s) - overweight , body mass index , obesity , medicine , gerontology , demography , environmental health , index (typography) , sociology , world wide web , computer science
We examined the association of body mass index with all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD)-specific mortality risks among US adults and calculated the rate advancement period by which death is advanced among the exposed groups.
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