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Body mass index and incident coronary heart disease in women: a population-based prospective study
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BACKGROUND:A high body mass index (BMI) is associated with an increased risk of mortality from coronary heart disease (CHD); however, a low BMI may also be associated with an increased mortality risk. There is limited information on the relation of incident CHD risk across a wide range of BMI, particularly in women. We examined the relation between BMI and incident CHD overall and across different risk factors of the disease in the Million Women Study.METHODS:1.2 million women (mean age = 56 ...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1186/1741-7015-11-87
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NHS Breast Screening Programme
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Medical Research Council
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Cancer Research UK
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 87
- Publication date:
- 2013-01-01
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1741-7015
- ISSN:
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1741-7015
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- English
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- pubs:394929
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394929
- Deposit date:
- 2013-11-16
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- Copyright holder:
- Canoy et al
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
- © 2013 Canoy et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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