Body mass and 26 y risk of mortality among men who never smoked: a re-analysis among men from the Adventist Mortality Study

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Summary

A significant positive, linear relation between BMI and all-cause mortality was consistently found among middle-aged and older men from the Adventist Mortality Study, and was primarily due to excess risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer among the heavier men.

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Published
1998-06-01
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Medicine, Demography, Body mass index, Hazard ratio, Proportional hazards model

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