Association between body mass index and mortality in the Korean elderly: A nationwide cohort study.

Association between body mass index and mortality in the Korean elderly: A nationwide cohort study.

The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and mortality in the elderly. This study was a nation-wide population-based retrospective cohort study of the National Health Insurance System-Senior Database (NHIS-SD). In this study, a total of 75,856 sub...

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Main Authors: Seung-Hyun Lee, Do-Hoon Kim, Joo-Hyun Park, Shinhye Kim, Moonyoung Choi, Hyonchong Kim, Da Eun Seul, Soo Gyeong Park, Jin-Hyung Jung, Kyungdo Han, Young-Gyu Park
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6239300?pdf=render

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