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.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 1998-06-01
- Cited by
- 34
- References
- 20
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Keywords
Medicine, Demography, Body mass index, Hazard ratio, Proportional hazards model
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- Preoperative body mass index and outcomes of gastric cancer patients
- The distribution and mortality impact of chronic energy deficiency among adult Nigerian men and women
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- Does the prescriptive lifestyle of Seventh-day Adventists provide ‘immunity’ from the secular effects of changes in BMI?
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