Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

2016 The Lancet 2,653 citations

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UK Medical Research Council, British Heart Foundation, National Institute for Health Research, US National Institutes of Health.

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OverweightBody mass indexMedicineDemographyHazard ratioProspective cohort studyObesityConfoundingConfidence intervalMeta-analysisInternal medicine

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Year: 2016
Type: review
Volume: 388
Issue: 10046
Pages: 776-786
Citations: 2653
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                                    Emanuele Di Angelantonio, 
                                
                                    Shilpa N Bhupathiraju, 
                                
                                    David Wormser
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2016). 
                            Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents. 
                            The Lancet
                            , 388
                            (10046)
                            , 776-786.
                            https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(16)30175-1
                        

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DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(16)30175-1