Body Mass Index and Mortality: A Twelve-Year Prospective Study in Korea

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There is a similar BMI/Mortality study in Korea:

Body Mass Index and Mortality: A Twelve-Year Prospective Study in Korea

Yun-Mi Song; Joohon Sung

Epidemiology, Vol. 12, No. 2. (Mar., 2001), pp. 173-179.

"A J-shaped relation with cerebrovascular mortality was also attenuated after adjustment. Even after this adjustment and exclusion of

early deaths between 1990 and 1994, the relation of body mass index to all-cause (U-shaped), cancer (J-shaped), and noncancer

noncoronary noncerebrovascular (inverse J-shaped) mortality remained. Both high and low body mass index were

related to increased mortality among these Korean men."

The pdf is in JSTOR.

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