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Is there an association between body roundness index and all-cause or cardiovascular mortality in the general population?
Is there an association between body roundness index and all-cause or cardiovascular mortality in the general population?
Body roundness index exhibits a U-shaped association with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in the general population.
BRI shows U-shaped mortality links in general population; leaves open whether it refines risk prediction beyond BMI.
The U-shaped association between BRI and all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality in a large population-based cohort was observed.
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Zhou et al. (2022) studied this question.
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