New indexes of body fat distribution and sex-specific risk of total and cause-specific mortality: a prospective cohort study

Background A number of prior studies have examined the association between anthropometric measures and mortality, but studies investigating the sex-specific predictive value of novel anthropometric measures on mortality are scarce so far. Therefore, we investigated the sex-specific relevance of the...

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Published in:	BMC public health Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 427 - 12
Main Authors:	Rost, Susanne, Freuer, Dennis, Peters, Annette, Thorand, Barbara, Holle, Rolf, Linseisen, Jakob, Meisinger, Christa
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London BioMed Central 02.04.2018 BioMed Central Ltd Springer Nature B.V BMC
Subjects:	Adipose tissue All-cause mortality Anthropometric measures Anthropometry Biostatistics Body adiposity index Body fat Body mass index Body measurements Body size Cancer Cancer mortality Cardiovascular diseases Cardiovascular mortality Chronic Disease epidemiology Cohort analysis Complications and side effects Environmental Health Epidemiology Health risk assessment Health risks Hip KORA Medicine Medicine & Public Health Men Mortality Mortality risk Obesity Patient outcomes Public Health Regression analysis Research Article Risk analysis Risk factors Sex Studies Vaccine Womens health United States > US KORA Obesity All-cause mortality Cancer mortality Anthropometric measures Body adiposity index Cardiovascular mortality Prospective study
ISSN:	1471-2458, 1471-2458
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