Association Between Body Mass Index and All-Cause Death in Japanese Population: Pooled Individual Participant Data Analysis of 13 Cohort Studies

Association Between Body Mass Index and All-Cause Death in Japanese Population: Pooled Individual Participant Data Analysis of 13 Cohort Studies

Background: We sought to investigate the optimal values of BMI for the lowest risk of all-cause death and whether the optimal BMI differs according to smoking status in large-scale pooled analysis of 13 Japanese cohorts. Methods: Data from 179,987 participants of 13 well-qualified cohort studies con...

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Main Authors: Atsushi Hozawa, Takumi Hirata, Hiroshi Yatsuya, Yoshitaka Murakami, Shinichi Kuriyama, Ichiro Tsuji, Daisuke Sugiyama, Atsushi Satoh, Sachiko Tanaka-Mizuno, Katsuyuki Miura, Hirotsugu Ueshima, Tomonori Okamura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Japan Epidemiological Association 2019-12-01
Series:Journal of Epidemiology
Subjects:
body mass index
pooled analyses
all-cause mortality
prospective studies
Online Access:https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jea/29/12/29_JE20180124/_pdf

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