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J-shapedness: an often missed, often miscalculated relation: the example of weight and mortality

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  • Sissi Cao Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rahim Moineddin Department of Family and Community Medicine and Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Marcelo L Urquia Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Fahad Razak Division of General Internal Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital Scientist in the Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital Department of Medicine, University of Toronto Bell Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Joel G Ray Departments of Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Health Policy Management & Evaluation, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Joel G Ray, Department of Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, 30 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 1W8; rayj{at}smh.ca
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Cao S, Moineddin R, Urquia ML, et al
J-shapedness: an often missed, often miscalculated relation: the example of weight and mortality
J Epidemiol Community Health 2014;68:683-690.

Publication history

  • Received September 26, 2013
  • Revised January 3, 2014
  • Accepted February 28, 2014
  • First published March 28, 2014.
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April 27, 2016

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