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BMI–mortality association: shape independent of smoking status but different for chronic lung disease and lung cancer

BACKGROUND: Besides smoking, low or high body mass index (BMI) is associated with chronic lung disease (CLD). It is unclear how CLD is associated with BMI, whether smoking interacts with this association, and how the associations differ from the patterns known for lung cancer. POPULATION AND METHODS...

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Autores principales: Faeh, David, Kaufmann, Marco, Haile, Sarah R, Bopp, Matthias
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5995287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29922051
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S157629