New indexes of body fat distribution and sex-specific risk of total and cause-specific mortality: a prospective cohort study

• Main Authors: Susanne Rost (Author), Dennis Freuer (Author), Annette Peters (Author), Barbara Thorand (Author), Rolf Holle (Author), Jakob Linseisen (Author), Christa Meisinger (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background A number of prior studies have examined the association between anthropometric measures and mortality, but studies investigating the sex-specific predictive value of novel anthropometric measures on mortality are scarce so far. Therefore, we investigated the sex-specific relevanc...