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Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

Emanuele Di Angelantonio, +64 more
- 20 Aug 2016 - 
- Vol. 388, Iss: 10046, pp 776-786
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The associations of both overweight and obesity with higher all-cause mortality were broadly consistent in four continents and supports strategies to combat the entire spectrum of excess adiposity in many populations.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2016-08-20 and is currently open access. It has received 1731 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Body mass index & Overweight.

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2017 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation: The Task Force for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

Borja Ibanez, +18 more
- 07 Jan 2018 - 
TL;DR: 2017 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation are published.
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2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension.

B. Williams, +27 more
- 01 Sep 2018 - 
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Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years.

Ashkan Afshin, +167 more
- 06 Jul 2017 - 
TL;DR: The rapid increase in the prevalence and disease burden of elevated BMI highlights the need for continued focus on surveillance of BMI and identification, implementation, and evaluation of evidence‐based interventions to address this problem.
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The Metabolic Phenotype in Obesity: Fat Mass, Body Fat Distribution, and Adipose Tissue Function

Gijs H. Goossens
- 01 Jun 2017 - 
TL;DR: Detailed metabolic phenotyping of obese persons will be invaluable in understanding the pathophysiology of metabolic disturbances, and is needed to identify high-risk individuals or subgroups, thereby paving the way for optimization of prevention and treatment strategies to combat cardiometabolic diseases.
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2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension : The Task Force for the management of arterial hypertension of the European Society of Cardiology and the European Society of Hypertension

Bryan Williams, +27 more
- 01 Oct 2018 - 
TL;DR: De Backer et al. as mentioned in this paper developed the ESC Guidelines for the ESC Review Co-ordinator, which are used for the evaluation of the ESC review process and the review process.
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