Gender-specific association between tobacco smoking and central obesity among 0.5 million Chinese people: the China Kadoorie Biobank Study.

Lifestyle factors are well-known important modifiable risk factors for obesity; the association between tobacco smoking and central obesity, however, is largely unknown in the Chinese population. This study examined the relationship between smoking and central obesity in 0.5 million Chinese adults,...

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Main Authors: Jun Lv, Wei Chen, Dianjianyi Sun, Shengxu Li, Iona Y Millwood, Margaret Smith, Yu Guo, Zheng Bian, Canqing Yu, Huiyan Zhou, Yunlong Tan, Junshi Chen, Zhengming Chen, Liming Li, China Kadoorie Biobank collaborative group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4405570?pdf=render