Commentary on "A meta-analysis but not a systematic review: an evaluation of the Global BMI Mortality Collaboration"

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
² Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
³ Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: frank.hu@channing.harvard.edu.

Comment

Shilpa N Bhupathiraju et al. J Clin Epidemiol. 2017 Aug.

. 2017 Aug:88:30-32.

doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.04.006. Epub 2017 Apr 12.

¹ Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
² Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
³ Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: frank.hu@channing.harvard.edu.

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A meta-analysis of individual participant data constructed to align with prior expert views: comments on Bhupathiraju et al.
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A meta-analysis but not a systematic review: an evaluation of the Global BMI Mortality Collaboration.
Flegal KM, Ioannidis JPA. Flegal KM, et al. J Clin Epidemiol. 2017 Aug;88:21-29. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.04.007. Epub 2017 Apr 21. J Clin Epidemiol. 2017. PMID: 28435099