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Clinical Obesity and All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality in UK Biobank

JAMA Internal Medicine 10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.4978

October 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT

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This study evaluates the association between a new definition of obesity with mortality data in the UK Biobank.

Corresponding Author: Heinz Freisling, PhD, Nutrition and Metabolism Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 25 Avenue Tony Garnier, CS90627, 69366 Lyon, France (freislingh@iarc.who.int).

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