Prognostic value of obesity on both overall mortality and cardiovascular disease in the general population.

Obesity represents an important health problem and its association with cardiovascular risk factors is well-known. The aim of this work was to assess the correlation between obesity and mortality (both, all-cause mortality and the combined variable of all-cause mortality plus the appearance of a non...

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Main Authors: Isabel Ponce-Garcia, Marta Simarro-Rueda, Julio Antonio Carbayo-Herencia, Juan Antonio Divisón-Garrote, Luis Miguel Artigao-Ródenas, Francisco Botella-Romero, Antonio Palazón-Bru, Damian Robert James Martínez-St John, Vicente Francisco Gil-Guillén, Group of Vascular Diseases from Albacete
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4438865?pdf=render