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Body mass index and mortality in China: a 15-year prospective study of 220 000 men

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2012

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Zhengming Chen, Gonghuan Yang, Alison Offer, Maigeng Zhou, Margaret Smith, Richard Peto, Hui Ge, Ling Yang, Gary Whitlock
International Journal of Epidemiology

Abstract

For China, previous evidence may have overestimated the excess mortality at low BMI but underestimated that at high BMI. The main way obesity kills in China appears to be stroke.

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