Cause-specific mortality in old age in relation to body mass index in middle age and in old age: follow-up of the Whitehall cohort of male civil servants.

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Published in Int J Epidemiol on November 12, 2005

Authors

Elizabeth Breeze1, Robert Clarke, Martin J Shipley, Michael G Marmot, Astrid E Fletcher

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. e.breeze@ucl.ac.uk

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