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Estimating the Effects of Obesity and Weight Change on Mortality Using a Dynamic Causal Model

BACKGROUND: A well-known challenge in estimating the mortality risks of obesity is reverse causality attributable to illness-associated and smoking-associated weight loss. Given that the likelihood of chronic and acute illnesses rises with age, reverse causality is most threatening to estimates deri...

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Autor principal: Cao, Bochen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4481504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26110432
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0129946