Overweight, Obesity, and Survival After Stroke in the Framingham Heart Study

Overweight, Obesity, and Survival After Stroke in the Framingham Heart Study

BackgroundWe investigated how body weight affects survival after stroke, leveraging the availability of multiple prestroke body mass index (BMI) measurements and using a nested case‐control design in a community‐based sample. Methods and ResultsWe compared all‐cause mortality in participants stratif...

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Main Authors: Hugo J. Aparicio, Jayandra J. Himali, Alexa S. Beiser, Kendra L. Davis‐Plourde, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Carlos S. Kase, Philip A. Wolf, Sudha Seshadri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-11-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
body mass index
body weight
cerebrovascular disease
epidemiology
mortality
obesity
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.116.004721

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