Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospectiv...
Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents
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The Global BMI Mortality Collaboration , Di Angelantonio, Emanuele , Bhupathiraju, Shilpa N , Wormser, David , Gao, Pei , Kaptoge, Stephen , de Gonzalez, Amy Berrington , Cairns, Benjamin J , Huxley, Rachel , Jackson, Chandra L , Joshy, Grace , Lewington, Sarah , Manson, JoAnn E , Murphy, Neil , Patel, Alpa V , Samet, Jonathan M , Woodward, Mark , Zheng, Wei , Zhou, Maigen , Bansal, Narinder , Barricarte, Aurelio , Carter, Brian , Cerhan, James R , Collins, Rory , Smith, George Davey , Fang, Xianghua , Franco, Oscar H , Green, Jane , Halsey, Jim , Hildebrand, Janet S , Jung, Keum Ji , Korda, Rosemary J , McLerran, Dale F , Moore, Steven C , O'Keeffe, Linda M , Paige, Ellie , Ramond, Anna , Reeves, Gillian K , Rolland, Betsy , Sacerdote, Carlotta , Sattar, Naveed , Sofianopoulou, Eleni , Stevens, June , Thun, Michael , Ueshima, Hirotsugu , Yang, Ling , Yun, Young Duk , Willeit, Peter , Banks, Emily , Beral, Valerie , Chen, Zhengming , Gapstur, Susan M , Gunter, Marc J , Hartge, Patricia , Jee, Sun Ha , Lam, Tai-Hing , Peto, Richard , Potter, John D , Willett, Walter C , Thompson, Simon G , Danesh, John and Hu, Frank B
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England: Elsevier Ltd
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Summary Background Overweight and obesity are increasing worldwide. To help assess their relevance to mortality in different populations we conducted individual-participant data meta-analyses of prospective studies of body-mass index (BMI), limiting confounding and reverse causality by restricting analyses to never-smokers and excluding pre-existin...
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Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents
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Di Angelantonio, Emanuele
Bhupathiraju, Shilpa N
Wormser, David
Gao, Pei
Kaptoge, Stephen
de Gonzalez, Amy Berrington
Cairns, Benjamin J
Huxley, Rachel
Jackson, Chandra L
Joshy, Grace
Lewington, Sarah
Manson, JoAnn E
Murphy, Neil
Patel, Alpa V
Samet, Jonathan M
Woodward, Mark
Zheng, Wei
Zhou, Maigen
Bansal, Narinder
Barricarte, Aurelio
Carter, Brian
Cerhan, James R
Collins, Rory
Smith, George Davey
Fang, Xianghua
Franco, Oscar H
Green, Jane
Halsey, Jim
Hildebrand, Janet S
Jung, Keum Ji
Korda, Rosemary J
McLerran, Dale F
Moore, Steven C
O'Keeffe, Linda M
Paige, Ellie
Ramond, Anna
Reeves, Gillian K
Rolland, Betsy
Sacerdote, Carlotta
Sattar, Naveed
Sofianopoulou, Eleni
Stevens, June
Thun, Michael
Ueshima, Hirotsugu
Yang, Ling
Yun, Young Duk
Willeit, Peter
Banks, Emily
Beral, Valerie
Chen, Zhengming
Gapstur, Susan M
Gunter, Marc J
Hartge, Patricia
Jee, Sun Ha
Lam, Tai-Hing
Peto, Richard
Potter, John D
Willett, Walter C
Thompson, Simon G
Danesh, John
Hu, Frank B
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4995441
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4995441
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0140-6736
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1474-547X
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10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30175-1
