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Estimating Risk Ratios and Risk Differences Using Regression

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Correlates of health care use among White and minority men and women with diabetes: An NHANES study

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Cohort profile: The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)

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An Overview and Update on Obesity and the Obesity Paradox in Cardiovascular Diseases

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Does obesity along with major depression or anxiety lead to higher use of health care and costs? A 6-year follow-up study

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Is BMI a valid measure of obesity in postmenopausal women?

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BMI, BMIfat, BAI or BAIFels – Which is the best adiposity index for the detection of excess weight?

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Relationship Among Body Fat Percentage, Body Mass Index, and All-Cause Mortality

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Diagnostic accuracy of body mass index to identify obesity in older adults: NHANES 1999–2004

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Alcohol consumption, smoking and overweight as a burden for health care services utilization: a cross-sectional study in Estonia

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Technical note: The risk ratio, an alternative to the odds ratio for estimating the association between multiple risk factors and a dichotomous outcome

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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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Obesity Predicts Primary Health Care Visits: A Cohort Study

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Change in the prevalence of obesity and use of health care in Denmark: an observational study

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The Relationship Among Body Mass Index, Subjective Reporting of Chronic Disease, and the Use of Health Care Services in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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How Accurate are Self-Reports? Analysis of Self-Reported Health Care Utilization and Absence When Compared With Administrative Data

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The effect of obesity on health outcomes

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Comparisons of percentage body fat, body mass index, waist circumference, and waist-stature ratio in adults

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