Investigation of methodological factors potentially underlying the apparently paradoxical findings on body mass index and all-cause mortality.

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Published in PLoS One on February 12, 2014

Authors

Grace Joshy1, Rosemary J Korda2, Adrian Bauman3, Hidde P Van Der Ploeg4, Tien Chey3, Emily Banks5

Author Affiliations

1: National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
2: National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia ; Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
3: Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
4: Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia ; Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
5: National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia ; The Sax Institute, Sydney, Australia.

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