Disease and weight loss: a prospective study of middle-aged and older adults in Costa Ricaand England

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Luis Rosero-Bixby²  Noreen Goldman³  Laura Blue³ 

[1] Centro Centroamericano de Pobl;Department of Demography, University of California, Berkeley. The United States;Office of Population Research, Princeton University. The United States.

关键词: body weight changes;    body mass index;    diabetes mellitus;    Costa Rica;    England;   

DOI  :  10.21149/spm.v57i4.7574

学科分类：卫生学

来源: Instituto Nacional De Salud Publica

【 摘 要 】

Objective . To determine whether disease predicts weight loss in population-based studies, as this may confound the relationship between weight and mortality.Materials and methods . We used longitudinal data from the Costa Rican

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC