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The association between BMI and mortality using early adulthood BMI as an instrumental variable for midlife BMI

The article aims to describe the association between midlife body mass index (BMI) and cardiovascular disease (CVD)- and all-cause mortality, and to use early adulthood BMI as an instrumental variable for midlife BMI, in order to obtain an estimate less distorted by midlife confounders and reverse c...

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Autores principales: Kjøllesdal, Marte K. R., Smith, George Davey, Ariansen, Inger, Kinge, Jonas Minet, Degerud, Eirik, Næss, Øyvind
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6068135/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30065250
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29089-z