Impact of obesity, overweight and underweight on life expectancy and lifetime medical expenditures: the Ohsaki Cohort Study

OBJECTIVES: People who are obese have higher demands for medical care than those of the normal weight people. However, in view of their shorter life expectancy, it is unclear whether obese people have higher lifetime medical expenditure. We examined the association between body mass index, life expe...

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Autores principales: Nagai, Masato, Kuriyama, Shinichi, Kakizaki, Masako, Ohmori-Matsuda, Kaori, Sone, Toshimasa, Hozawa, Atsushi, Kawado, Miyuki, Hashimoto, Shuji, Tsuji, Ichiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Group 2012
Materias:
Epidemiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3353127/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22581797
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-000940

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3353127/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22581797
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-000940

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