Open Access<p>Thigh Circumference and Risk of All-Cause, Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Mortality: A Cohort Study</p>
Author(s) -
Chaolei Chen,
Lin Liu,
Jiayi Huang,
Yu-Ling Yu,
Suxia Geng,
Kenneth Lo,
Yu-Qing Huang,
Yingqing Feng
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
risk management and healthcare policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.828
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 1179-1594
DOI - 10.2147/rmhp.s264435
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , quartile , proportional hazards model , body mass index , prospective cohort study , national health and nutrition examination survey , cohort , circumference , waist , national death index , cause of death , cohort study , confidence interval , surgery , population , disease , environmental health , geometry , mathematics
The relationship between thigh circumference and all-cause and cause-specific mortality has not been consistent. We aimed to examine how thigh circumference associates with all-cause, cardiovascular, and cerebrovascular mortality among US adults.