Waist-to-Height Ratio Is More Predictive of Years of Life Lost than Body Mass Index

OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to compare the effect of central obesity (measured by waist-to-height ratio, WHtR) and total obesity (measured by body mass index, BMI) on life expectancy expressed as years of life lost (YLL), using data on British adults. METHODS: A Cox proportional hazards model was applied...

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Autores principales: Ashwell, Margaret, Mayhew, Les, Richardson, Jon, Rickayzen, Ben
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4157748/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25198730
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103483

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4157748/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25198730
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103483

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