OBJECTIVES: To assess the relationship between body mass index (BMI; kg/m) and mortality in a large nationally representative sample of US adults over age 70 years. DESIGN: Prospective longitudinal cohort study, the Longitudinal Study of Aging (LSOA). Subjects were all those 7260 black and whit...
Substantial evidence suggests that increasing adiposity is associated with an increased death rate of colorectal cancer, but no studies were conducted among national representative populations in the United States. The current study examined the death rate across BMI levels in 7,016 adults who participat...
Our analyses extend the findings from previous studies by assessing these associations in a large, diverse, and nationally representative sample and by using more nuanced CVD-related causes of death. Taken together with the body of literature on associations between depression and CVD mortality, these...
Did perceived knowledge of Cuba change among U.S. adults after the presidential announcements about diplomatic relations between the two countries and, if so, how? Respondents were asked to indicate their agreement with one item to measure perceived knowledge of Cuba, “I have a lot of knowledge...
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Mortality is described among a cohort of 634 women who worked in the US radium dial-painting industry between 1915 and 1929, and whose names were obtained from employment lists or similar documents. Based on death rates for US white females, greater than expected numbers of deaths (from death...
Body mass index and death rate of colorectal cancer among a national cohort of U.S. adults. Nutr Cancer 2011; 63: 1218-1225.Dehal, A.; Garrett, T.; Tedders, S.H.; Arroyo, C.; Afriyie-Gyawu, E.; Zhang, J. Body mass index and death rate of colorectal cancer among a national ...
All the Sabs got called, the whole lobby died, respawned, someone reported a body, and than the hacker left leaving us stuck on the voting screen because someone was too high and mighty to vote. (The host made voting time INF.)
Death certificates were collected through the local public health centers and used to confirm the cause of death, with permission from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Causes of death were defined according to the International Classification of Diseases, 10th edition (ICD-10): all exter...