American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on November 9, 2005
American Journal of Epidemiology 2006 163(1):99; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj004
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Letter to the Editor |
RE: "BODY MASS INDEX AND INCIDENT ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE IN SOUTH KOREAN MEN"
Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY 11210
(e-mail: jamesg@brooklyn.cuny.edu)
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In a recent Journal article, Jee et al. (1
) may have found higher hazard ratios for a body mass index (BMI) of 2030 kg/m2 than those found in Caucasian populations (e.g., Hu et al. (2![]()