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BMI, all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Chinese Singaporean men and women: the Singapore Chinese health study.

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العنوان: BMI, all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Chinese Singaporean men and women: the Singapore Chinese health study.
المؤلفون: Andrew O Odegaard, Mark A Pereira, Woon-Puay Koh, Myron D Gross, Sue Duval, Mimi C Yu, Jian-Min Yuan
المصدر: PLoS ONE, Vol 5, Iss 11, p e14000 (2010)
بيانات النشر: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2010.
سنة النشر: 2010
المجموعة: LCC:Medicine
LCC:Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Medicine, Science
الوصف: The optimal range of relative weight for morbidity and mortality in Asian populations is an important question in need of more thorough investigation, especially as obesity rates increase. We aimed to examine the association between body mass index (BMI), all cause and cause-specific mortality to determine the optimal range of BMI in relation to mortality in Chinese men and women in Singapore.We analyzed data from a prospective cohort study of 51,251 middle-aged or older (45-74) Chinese men and women in the Singapore Chinese Health Study. Participants were enrolled and data on body weight and covariates were collected in 1993-1998 and participants were followed through 2008. The analysis accounted for potential methodological issues through stratification on smoking and age, thorough adjustment of demographic and lifestyle confounders and exclusion of deaths early in the follow-up.Increased risk of mortality was apparent in underweight (
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1932-6203
Relation: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2981556?pdf=render; https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014000
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/7b8563c347494499960d1204edbd05d0
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.7b8563c347494499960d1204edbd05d0
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:19326203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0014000