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Survival benefit of abdominal adiposity: a 6-year follow-up study with Dual X-ray absorptiometry in 3,978 older adults

In contrast to that in the middle-aged, higher body mass index (BMI) in older people is associated with higher survival rates. Yet, BMI makes no distinction between fat elsewhere and abdominal fat, the latter being metabolically more harmful. We hypothesized that overall adiposity might be protectiv...

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Hauptverfasser: Lee, Jenny Shun Wah, Auyeung, Tung Wai, Kwok, Timothy, Li, Martin, Leung, Jason, Woo, Jean
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Springer Netherlands 2011
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3337922/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21667162
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11357-011-9272-y
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