The associations between relative and absolute body mass index with mortality rate based on predictions from stigma theory

• Päätekijät: Gregory Pavela (Tekijä), Nengjun Yi (Tekijä), Luis M. Mestre (Tekijä), Stella Lartey (Tekijä), Pengcheng Xun (Tekijä), David B. Allison (Tekijä)
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• Julkaistu: Elsevier, 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background: The social consequences of obesity may influence health and mortality rate (MR), given obesity's status as a highly stigmatized condition. Hence, a high absolute body mass index (BMI) in conjunction with the stigmatization of a high BMI may each independently increase the rate of MR...