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Background Although the detrimental effect of overweight and obesity has been extensively reported in Western populations, little is known on the association between body weight, weight change and mortality in Asian populations whose weight distribution and mortality differ considerably from the...
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A correction to an study about body mass index and mortality among 1.46 million white adults, that was published in a 2010 issue is presented.
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The prevalence of obesity in childhood and adolescence has increased worldwide. Long-term effects of adolescent obesity on cause-specific mortality are not well specified. The authors studied 227,000 adolescents (aged 14–19 years) measured (height and weight) in Norwegian health...
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The prevalence of obesity in childhood and adolescence has increased worldwide. Long-term effects of adolescent obesity on cause-specific mortality are not well specified. The authors studied 227,000 adolescents (aged 14–19 years) measured (height and weight) in Norwegian health surveys...
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- Relationship Among Body Fat Percentage, Body Mass Index, and All-Cause Mortality. Dong Hoon Lee; Lee, Dong Hoon // Annals of Internal Medicine;10/18/2016, Vol. 165 Issue 8, p603
A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Relationship among body fat percentage, body mass index, and all-cause mortality. A cohort study" by R. Padwal in the previous issue.
- Relationship Among Body Fat Percentage, Body Mass Index, and All-Cause Mortality. Padwal, Raj; Majumdar, Sumit R.; Leslie, William D. // Annals of Internal Medicine;10/18/2016, Vol. 165 Issue 8, p604
A response from the author of the article "Relationship among body fat percentage, body mass index, and all-cause mortality. A cohort study" in the previous issue is presented.
- A Comparison of Adiposity Measures as Predictors of All-cause Mortality: The Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study. Simpson, Julie A.; MacInnis, Robert J.; Peeters, Anna; Hopper, John L.; Giles, Graham G.; English, Dallas R. // Obesity (19307381);Apr2007, Vol. 15 Issue 4, p994
The article discusses the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study on anthropometric measures, such as Body Mass Index (BMI) and fat mass, as predictors of all-cause mortality associated with obesity conducted in Victoria. It says that two sensitivity analyses were carried out to examine the impact...
- Does obesity shorten life? The importance of well-defined interventions to answer causal questions. Hernán, M A; Taubman, S L // International Journal of Obesity;Aug2008 Supplement 3, Vol. 32, pS8
Many observational studies have estimated a strong effect of obesity on mortality. In this paper, we explicitly define the causal question that is asked by these studies and discuss the problems associated with it. We argue that observational studies of obesity and mortality violate the...
