Associations of general and abdominal obesity with multiple health outcomes in older women: the Iowa Women's Health Study.

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Published in Arch Intern Med on July 24, 2000

Authors

A R Folsom1, L H Kushi, K E Anderson, P J Mink, J E Olson, C P Hong, T A Sellers, D Lazovich, R J Prineas

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 S Second St, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454-1015, USA. folsom@epi.umn.edu

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