Obesity in Older People With and Without Conditions Associated With Weight Loss: Follow-up of 955,000 Primary Care Patients

BACKGROUND: Moderate obesity in later life may improve survival, prompting calls to revise obesity control policies. However, this obesity paradox may be due to confounding from smoking, diseases causing weight-loss, plus varying follow-up periods. We aimed to estimate body mass index (BMI) associat...

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Autores principales: Bowman, Kirsty, Delgado, João, Henley, William E., Masoli, Jane A., Kos, Katarina, Brayne, Carol, Thokala, Praveen, Lafortune, Louise, Kuchel, George A., Ble, Alessandro, Melzer, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5233914/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27492450
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glw147

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5233914/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27492450
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glw147

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