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Indices of obesity derived from body weight and height.
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The relation between body weight and mortal- ity, particularly from cardiovascular disease and diabetes, is well established (Society of Actuaries, 1959; Preston and Clarke, 1966).A reliable, practicable, and generally acceptable index of obesity would therefore have important epidemiological, actuarial, and clinical applications; but many difficulties stand in the way of providing such an index.* In more general terms, the power "n" is the regression coefficient of log W on log H (i.e.log W = log I + n log H).
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- Authors
- Khosla, T., & Lowe, C. R.
- Venue
- Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 1967-07-01
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 122-128
- ISSN
- 0141-7681 (ISSN-L)
- 0143-005X
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- W1978379692
- Cited by
- 552
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 13.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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