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Dose-dependent positive association between cigarette smoking, abdominal obesity and body fat: cross-sectional data from a population-based survey

BACKGROUND: Although smokers tend to have a lower body-mass index than non-smokers, smoking may favour abdominal body fat accumulation. To our knowledge, no population-based studies have assessed the relationship between smoking and body fat composition. We assessed the association between cigarette...

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Autores principales: Clair, Carole, Chiolero, Arnaud, Faeh, David, Cornuz, Jacques, Marques-Vidal, Pedro, Paccaud, Fred, Mooser, Vincent, Waeber, Gérard, Vollenweider, Peter
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3025841/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21223575
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-23