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New indexes of body fat distribution and sex-specific risk of total and cause-specific mortality: a prospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: A number of prior studies have examined the association between anthropometric measures and mortality, but studies investigating the sex-specific predictive value of novel anthropometric measures on mortality are scarce so far. Therefore, we investigated the sex-specific relevance of the...

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Autores principales: Rost, Susanne, Freuer, Dennis, Peters, Annette, Thorand, Barbara, Holle, Rolf, Linseisen, Jakob, Meisinger, Christa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5879745/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29609587
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5350-8