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Smoking and reverse causation create an obesity paradox in cardiovascular disease

OBJECTIVE: Many studies find that excess weight is associated with better survival among individuals with cardiovascular disease (CVD). Investigations were carried out to see whether this “obesity paradox” can be explained by biases. METHODS: The association between weight status and mortality in th...

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Autores principales: Stokes, Andrew, Preston, Samuel H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4701612/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26421898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oby.21239