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The obesity paradox and incident cardiovascular disease: A population-based study

BACKGROUND: Prior work suggests that obesity may confer a survival advantage among persons with cardiovascular disease (CVD). This obesity “paradox” is frequently studied in the context of prevalent disease, a stage in the disease process when confounding from illness-related weight loss and selecti...

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Autores principales: Chang, Virginia W., Langa, Kenneth M., Weir, David, Iwashyna, Theodore J.
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/PMC5720539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29216243
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188636