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The Body Mass Index-Mortality Link across the Life Course: Two Selection Biases and Their Effects

In this study, we investigated two selection biases that may affect the obesity-mortality link over the life course: mortality selection and healthy participant effects. If these selection mechanisms are stronger among obese adults than among non-obese adults, they may contribute to the weakening ob...

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Autores principales: Zheng, Hui, Dirlam, Jonathan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4739746/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26841215
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148178