Body-Mass Index in 2.3 Million Adolescents and Cardiovascular Death in Adulthood
Open Access
- 23 June 2016
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 374 (25), 2430-2440
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1503840
Abstract
In light of the worldwide increase in childhood obesity, we examined the association between body-mass index (BMI) in late adolescence and death from cardiovascular causes in adulthood.Keywords
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