ArticleObesity (Silver Spring, Md.)2013
Does being overweight really reduce mortality?
Article in Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
38 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The J-shaped relationship between body mass index and mortality in patients with COVID-19: A dose-response meta-analysis.Diabetes, obesity & metabolism · 2021Pooled it
- Body Mass Index and All-Cause, Cancer, and Cardiovascular Mortality in Adults Aged 16-50 Years With and Without Type 2 Diabetes: An Analysis of Primary Care Records in England.Diabetes, obesity & metabolism · 2026Article
- Central Adiposity Assessed with Body Roundness Index and Mortality: The Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra Prospective Cohort.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Outcomes of myocardial revascularization in patients with obesity and multivessel coronary artery disease.The Egyptian heart journal : (EHJ) : official bulletin of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology · 2024Article
- Physical Activity, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, and the Obesity Paradox with Consideration for Racial and/or Ethnic Differences: A Broad Review and Call to Action.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Review
- The impact of body mass index on long-term survival after ICU admission due to COVID-19: A retrospective multicentre study.Critical care and resuscitation : journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine · 2023Article
- A Primer on Systematic Review and Meta-analysis in Diabetes Research.Diabetes care · 2023Review
- A comparison of analytic approaches for investigating the obesity paradox in kidney cancer.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2023Article
- Outpatient treatment of worsening heart failure with intravenous diuretics: first results from a multicentre 2-year experience.ESC heart failure · 2023Observational
- Diet quality in an ethnically diverse population of older men in Australia.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2021Article
- Effect of Body Mass Index on the Prognosis of Liver Cirrhosis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Article
- Addressing Obesity to Promote Healthy Aging.Clinics in geriatric medicine · 2020Review
- Epidemiology and outcomes of obese critically ill patients in Australia and New Zealand.Critical care and resuscitation : journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine · 2020Observational
- Obesity or BMI Paradox? Beneath the Tip of the Iceberg.Frontiers in nutrition · 2020Review
- The Association Between Obesity and Risk of Acute Kidney Injury After Cardiac Surgery.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2020Article
- Trajectories of body mass index in adulthood and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study.BMJ open · 2019Article
- Obesity, acute kidney injury and mortality in patients with sepsis: a cohort analysis.Renal failure · 2018Article
- Association of Body Mass Index With Lifetime Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Compression of Morbidity.JAMA cardiology · 2018Article
- Reality of obesity paradox: Results of percutaneous coronary intervention in Middle Eastern patients.The Journal of international medical research · 2018Observational
- The Association Between Body Mass Index, and Cognitive, Functional, and Behavioral Declines for Incident Dementia.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2018Article
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