RACE/ETHNICITY AND U.S. ADULT MORTALITY
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Re: “obesity and Us Mortality Riskover the Adult Life
Masters et al. (1) suggested that previous studies have misestimated the age pattern of the mortality risks of obesity. Although prior work has indicated that the mortality risks associatedwith obesity declinewith age,Masters et al. argued that these risks rise with age. The authors reached their conclusion based on a model that included both age at survey and attained age over the follow-up pe...
متن کاملObesity and US mortality risk over the adult life course.
In this study, we analyzed age variation in the association between obesity status and US adult mortality risk. Previous studies have found that the association between obesity and mortality risk weakens with age. We argue that existing results were derived from biased estimates of the obesity-mortality relationship because models failed to account for confounding influences from respondents' a...
متن کاملRe: "obesity and US mortality risk over the adult life course".
Masters et al. (1) suggested that the weakening obesitymortality association with age reported in previous studies was due to uncontrolled confounding effects. They concluded that the obesity-mortality association strengthened with increasing age when those confounding factors were controlled for in their analysis. Mehta and Stokes (2) proposed that the findings might be due to interactions bet...
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In this study, we analyzed age variation in the association between obesity status and US adult mortality risk. Previous studies have found that the association between obesity and mortality risk weakens with age. We argue that existing results were derived from biased estimates of the obesity-mortality relationship because models failed to account for confounding influences from respondents’ a...
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BACKGROUND Extreme temperatures have been associated with increased mortality worldwide. The extent to which air pollutants may confound or modify this association remains unclear. METHODS We examined the association between mean apparent temperature and total mortality in 9 cities across the United States during the warm season (May to September) from 1999 to 2002. We applied case-crossover ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1742-058X,1742-0598
DOI: 10.1017/s1742058x11000051