Obesity in Older People With and Without Conditions Associated With Weight Loss: Follow-up of 955,000 Primary Care Patients

BACKGROUND: Moderate obesity in later life may improve survival, prompting calls to revise obesity control policies. However, this obesity paradox may be due to confounding from smoking, diseases causing weight-loss, plus varying follow-up periods. We aimed to estimate body mass index (BMI) associat...

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Publicado en:J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci
Main Authors: Bowman, Kirsty, Delgado, João, Henley, William E., Masoli, Jane A., Kos, Katarina, Brayne, Carol, Thokala, Praveen, Lafortune, Louise, Kuchel, George A., Ble, Alessandro, Melzer, David
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5233914/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27492450
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glw147
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