Disease and weight loss: a prospective study of middle-aged and older adults in Costa Rica and England
Objective. To determine whether disease predicts weight loss in population-based studies, as this may confound the relationship between weight and mortality. Materials and methods. We used longitudinal data from the Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study (CRELES) and the English Longitudinal...
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Main Authors: | Laura Blue (Author), Noreen Goldman (Author), Luis Rosero-Bixby (Author) |
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Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública,
2015-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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