Body-Mass Index in 2.3 Million Adolescents and Cardiovascular Death in Adulthood.

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In light of the worldwide increase in childhood obesity, we examined the association between body-mass index (BMI) in late adolescence and death from cardiovascular causes in adulthood.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): N. Engl. J. Med.

Title: The New England journal of medicine

ISSN (Electronic): 1533-4406

ISSN (Print): 0028-4793

Publication date (Electronic): Jun 23 2016

Volume: 374

Issue: 25

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[1 ] From the Department of Medicine (G.T., A.L., D.B.-A.S., A.S.) and the Dr. Pinchas Bornstein Talpiot Medical Leadership Program (G.T., G.Y.), Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps (G.T., G.Y., A.L., E.D., D.T.), Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv (G.T., A.L., E.D., D.B.-A.S., A.A., A.S.), and Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine (H.L., J.D.K.) and the Israel Ministry of Health (N.G., A.A., Z.H.), Jerusalem - all in Israel; and the Department of Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA (A.L.).

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DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1503840

PubMed ID: 27074389

SO-VID: c2e5043f-e07b-4143-8fb3-aa97093f6aff

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