Survival in Older Men May Benefit From Being Slightly Overweight and Centrally Obese—A 5-Year Follow-up Study in 4,000 Older Adults Using DXA

BACKGROUND: Whether overweight in old age is hazardous remains controversial. Body mass index (BMI) overestimates adiposity and fails to measure central adiposity. We used dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) to measure adiposity and hypothesized that overall adiposity, distribution of adiposity,...

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Main Authors: Auyeung, Tung Wai, Lee, Jenny S. W., Leung, Jason, Kwok, Timothy, Leung, Ping Chung, Woo, Jean
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2010
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Journal of Gerontology: MEDICAL SCIENCES
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2796879/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19628635
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glp099
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