Are Asians at greater mortality risks for being overweight than Caucasians? Redefining obesity for Asians - Wen, Chi Pang; David Cheng, Ting Yuan; Tsai, Shan Pou; Chan, Hui Ting; Hsu, Hui Ling; Hsu, Chih Cheng; Eriksen, Michael P (Public health nutrition, 2009)
Keywords: Adult; Age; Age groups; Aged; Alcohol; Asian Continental Ancestry Group; Asian People; Asians; at-risk population; Body fat; Body Mass Index; Body weight; Cardiovascular Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases - mortality; Cohort Studies; diet-related diseases; Disease control; disease prevalence; epidemiology; ethnology; European Continental Ancestry Group; Exercise; Fatalities; Female; Gender; Health risks; human diseases; human nutrition; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Morbidity; Mortality; Mortality risk; Nutrition; Obesity; Obesity - ethnology; Obesity - mortality; Overweight; Overweight - ethnology; Physical examinations; Prevalence; Proportional Hazards Models; Public health; Questionnaires; reference standards; Reference Values; Regression analysis; Risk; risk groups; Smoking; Taiwan; Taiwan - epidemiology; White People; Whites; World Health Organization; Young Adult; Taiwan; United States--US; IW, Pacific; ISEW, Taiwan; Body mass index; Obesity; Mortality risk; Overweight