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Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

BACKGROUND: Overweight and obesity are increasing worldwide. To help assess their relevance to mortality in different populations we conducted individual-participant data meta-analyses of prospective studies of body-mass index (BMI), limiting confounding and reverse causality by restricting analyses...

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Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4995441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27423262
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30175-1