Weight Loss and Premature Death: The 1946 British Birth Cohort Study

Obesity and US Mortality Risk Over the Adult Life Course

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Age-specific and sex-specific mortality in 187 countries, 1970–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

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National, regional, and global trends in body-mass index since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 960 country-years and 9·1 million participants

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Survival of the fattest: unexpected findings about hyperglycaemia and obesity in a population based study of 75-year-olds

(2011) G. Nilsson et al.   BMJ Open

Weight loss and mortality: A gender-specific analysis of the Tromsø study

(2010) Tom Wilsgaard et al.   Gender Medicine

Body-Mass Index and Mortality among 1.46 Million White Adults

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Body Weight Dynamics and Their Association With Physical Function and Mortality in Older Adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study

(2009) A. M. Arnold et al.   JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES

Body-mass index and cause-specific mortality in 900 000 adults: collaborative analyses of 57 prospective studies

(2009) Prospective Studies Collaboration   LANCET

A review and meta-analysis of the effect of weight loss on all-cause mortality risk

(2009) Mary Harrington et al.   NUTRITION RESEARCH REVIEWS

Do childhood cognitive ability or smoking behaviour explain the influence of lifetime socio-economic conditions on premature adult mortality in a British post war birth cohort?

(2009) Diana Kuh et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

The danger of weight loss in the elderly

(2008) S. L. Miller et al.   Journal of Nutrition Health & Aging