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Long-Term Morbidity and Mortality of Overweight Adolescents

Aviva Must, Paul F. Jacques, Gerard E. Dallal, Carl Jay Bajema, William H. Dietz

New England Journal of Medicine · 1992 · 2.3K citations · 32 references

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Abstract

Overweight in adolescence predicted a broad range of adverse health effects that were independent of adult weight after 55 years of follow-up.

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Distribution of adipose tissue and risk of cardiovascular disease and death: a 12 year follow up of participants in the population study of women in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Leif Lapidus, Calle Bengtsson, B. Larsson et al. · BMJ · 1984 · 1.7K citations · Full text

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A Prospective Study of Obesity and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Women

JoAnn E. Manson, Graham A. Colditz, Meir J. Stampfer et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1990 · 1.4K citations

Variations in mortality by weight among 750,000 men and women

Edward A. Lew, Lawrence Garfinkel · Journal of Chronic Diseases · 1979 · 1.2K citations

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Relationship of blood pressure, serum cholesterol, smoking habit, relative weight and ECG abnormalities to incidence of major coronary events: Final report of the pooling project

Journal of Chronic Diseases · 1978 · 996 citations

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Height. Weight and Mortality The Norwegian Experience

Hans Th. Waaler · Acta Medica Scandinavica · 1984 · 857 citations

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