Examining the BMI-mortality relationship using fractional polynomials

BACKGROUND: Many previous studies estimating the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and mortality impose assumptions regarding the functional form for BMI and result in conflicting findings. This study investigated a flexible data driven modelling approach to determine the nonlinear and asym...

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Autores principales: Wong, Edwin S, Wang, Bruce CM, Garrison, Louis P, Alfonso-Cristancho, Rafael, Flum, David R, Arterburn, David E, Sullivan, Sean D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3273446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22204699
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-175

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3273446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22204699
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-175

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