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Body shape index: Sex-specific differences in predictive power for all-cause mortality in the Japanese population

BACKGROUND: While body mass index (BMI) is the most widely used anthropometric measure, its association with all-cause mortality is generally J-shaped or U-shaped. A body shape index (ABSI) is a recently formulated anthropometric measure that shows linear relationship to all-cause mortality, especia...

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Autores principales: Sato, Yuji, Fujimoto, Shouichi, Konta, Tsuneo, Iseki, Kunitoshi, Moriyama, Toshiki, Yamagata, Kunihiro, Tsuruya, Kazuhiko, Narita, Ichiei, Kondo, Masahide, Kasahara, Masato, Shibagaki, Yugo, Asahi, Koichi, Watanabe, Tsuyoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5433760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28520811
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177779