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Body-mass index and all-1 cause mortality: Individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents
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Background: Overweight and obesity are increasing worldwide. To help assess their relevance to mortality in different populations we conducted individual-participant-data meta-analyses of the prospective studies of body mass index (BMI), limiting confounding and reverse causality by restricting analyses to never-smokers and excluding prior disease and the first 5 years of follow- up. Methods: Of 10,625,411 participants in Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Europe... Expand abstract
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher's Version
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- 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30175-1
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Medical Research Council
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British Heart Foundation
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Lancet Journal website
- Volume:
- 388
- Issue:
- 10046
- Pages:
- 776-786
- Publication date:
- 2016-07-13
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-04-01
- DOI:
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1474-547X
- ISSN:
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0140-6736
- URN:
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uuid:e5e3b775-c5c6-4c14-8b23-0fede9c743b6
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616637
- Local pid:
- pubs:616637
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- © 2016 The Author(s).
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This paper has been published under a Creative Common CC BY 4.0 license, see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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