Hypothesis Concerning the U-shaped Relation between Body Mass Index and Mortality
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Hypothesis concerning the U-shaped relation between body mass index and mortality.
Numerous studies have documented a U- or J-shaped association between body mass index (BMI) (kg/m2) and mortality, such that increased mortality rate is associated with relatively low and high BMI values. It has been argued elsewhere that the elevated mortality rate observed at lower BMI values actually results from the effects of unmeasured confounding variables, in particular smoking status a...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0002-9262,1476-6256
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009275