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Comment
. 2014 Jul;104(7):e3-4.
doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302016. Epub 2014 May 15.

Obesity-mortality association with age: wrong conclusion based on calculation error

Zhiqiang Wang  1 , Meina Liu
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Obesity-mortality association with age: wrong conclusion based on calculation error

Zhiqiang Wang et al. Am J Public Health. 2014 Jul.
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FIGURE 1—
FIGURE 1—
Hazard ratios of mortality for obesity (grade 2/3) in Black men. Note. Solid lines indicate HR estimates when baseline age was taken into consideration. Dashed line indicates HR estimates with a fixed baseline age.
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