Associations of medical conditions, lifestyle and unintentional weight loss in early old age: The 1946 British Birth Cohort

Yixiao Cao; Rebecca Hardy; Wahyu Wulaningsih

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0211952

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Associations of medical conditions, lifestyle and unintentional weight loss in early old age: The 1946 British Birth Cohort

Yixiao Cao,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, United Kingdom
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Rebecca Hardy,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, United Kingdom
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Wahyu Wulaningsih

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: w.wulaningsih@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliations MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, United Kingdom, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3822-1648

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Associations of medical conditions, lifestyle and unintentional weight loss in early old age: The 1946 British Birth Cohort

Yixiao Cao,
Rebecca Hardy,
Wahyu Wulaningsih

Published: April 9, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211952

About the Authors

Yixiao Cao

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, United Kingdom

Rebecca Hardy

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, United Kingdom

Wahyu Wulaningsih

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: w.wulaningsih@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliations MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, United Kingdom, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3822-1648

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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