Associations Among Visceral Fat, All-Cause Mortality, and Obesity-Related Mortality in Japanese Americans
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Associations Among Visceral Fat, All-Cause Mortality, and Obesity-Related Mortality in Japanese Americans
OBJECTIVE The study objective was to examine the associations among visceral fat (VF), all-cause mortality, and obesity-related mortality. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 733 Japanese Americans were followed for 16.9 years. Hazard ratios (HRs) per interquartile range increase in VF were calculated using time-dependent Cox proportional hazard models censored at age 82 years, with age as...
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عنوان ژورنال: Diabetes Care
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0149-5992,1935-5548
DOI: 10.2337/dc11-1193