Obesity and loss of disease-free years owing to major non-communicable diseases: a multicohort study

• Main Authors: Solja T Nyberg, PhD (Author), G David Batty, ProfDSc (Author), Jaana Pentti, MSc (Author), Marianna Virtanen, ProfPhD (Author), Lars Alfredsson, ProfPhD (Author), Eleonor I Fransson, PhD (Author), Marcel Goldberg, ProfMD (Author), Katriina Heikkilä, PhD (Author), Markus Jokela, PhD (Author), Anders Knutsson, ProfPhD (Author), Markku Koskenvuo, ProfMD (Author), Tea Lallukka, PhD (Author), Constanze Leineweber, PhD (Author), Joni V Lindbohm, MD (Author), Ida E H Madsen, PhD (Author), Linda L Magnusson Hanson, MD (Author), Maria Nordin, PhD (Author), Tuula Oksanen, MD (Author), Olli Pietiläinen, MSc (Author), Ossi Rahkonen, ProfPhD (Author), Reiner Rugulies, ProfPhD (Author), Martin J Shipley, MSc (Author), Sari Stenholm, PhD (Author), Sakari Suominen, ProfMD (Author), Töres Theorell, ProfMD (Author), Jussi Vahtera, ProfMD (Author), Peter J M Westerholm, ProfMD (Author), Hugo Westerlund, ProfPhD (Author), Marie Zins, MD (Author), Mark Hamer, ProfPhD (Author), Archana Singh-Manoux, PhD (Author), Joshua A Bell, PhD (Author), Jane E Ferrie, PhD (Author), Mika Kivimäki, ProfFMedSci (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: Obesity increases the risk of several chronic diseases, but the extent to which the obesity-related loss of disease-free years varies by lifestyle category and across socioeconomic groups is unclear. We estimated the number of years free from major non-communicable diseases in a...