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Body Weight And Mortality Among Adults Who Never Smoked, Pramil N. Singh
Body Weight And Mortality Among Adults Who Never Smoked, Pramil N. Singh
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
Most prospective studies identify an increased mortality risk for adults of high body mass index (> 27 kg/m2) that is commonly attributed to the effects of excess body fat, and also identify an increased mortality risk for adults of low body mass index (< 21 kg/m2), an association that, if causal among healthy adults, is without adequate pathophysiologic support.
In this dissertation, I have conducted three studies that continue the investigation of adiposity in relation to mortality among never-smoking adults of the California Seventh-day Adventist population. Among never-smoking adults of the Adventist Mortality Study (1960-1985), the relation between …
Artificial Societies: A Computational Model Of Disease Transmission, Nathan T. Moore
Artificial Societies: A Computational Model Of Disease Transmission, Nathan T. Moore
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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