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Obesity and overall mortality: findings from the Jackson Heart Study

BACKGROUND: Overall mortality has been reported to be lower among individuals classified as overweight/obese when compared with their normal weight counterparts (“obesity paradox”) when obesity classification is based on the body mass index (BMI). One possible reason for this apparent paradox is tha...

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Autores principales: Min, Yuan-I, Gao, Yan, Anugu, Pramod, Anugu, Anshul, Correa, Adolfo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7789276/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33407308
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-10040-9