Gender-Specific Association between Tobacco Smoking and Central Obesity among 0.5 Million Chinese People: The China Kadoorie Biobank Study

Jun Lv; Wei Chen; Dianjianyi Sun; Shengxu Li; Iona Y. Millwood; Margaret Smith; Yu Guo; Zheng Bian; Canqing Yu; Huiyan Zhou; Yunlong Tan; Junshi Chen; Zhengming Chen; Liming Li; China Kadoorie Biobank collaborative group

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0124586

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Gender-Specific Association between Tobacco Smoking and Central Obesity among 0.5 Million Chinese People: The China Kadoorie Biobank Study

Jun Lv,

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
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Wei Chen,

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Dianjianyi Sun,

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Shengxu Li,

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Iona Y. Millwood,

Affiliation Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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Margaret Smith,

Affiliation Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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Yu Guo,

Affiliation Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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Zheng Bian,

Affiliation Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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Canqing Yu,

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
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Huiyan Zhou,

Affiliation Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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Yunlong Tan,

Affiliation Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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Junshi Chen,

Affiliation China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing, China
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Zhengming Chen ,

* E-mail: lmlee@vip.163.com (LML); zhengming.chen@ctsu.ox.ac.uk (ZMC)

Affiliation Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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Liming Li ,

* E-mail: lmlee@vip.163.com (LML); zhengming.chen@ctsu.ox.ac.uk (ZMC)

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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China Kadoorie Biobank collaborative group

Gender-Specific Association between Tobacco Smoking and Central Obesity among 0.5 Million Chinese People: The China Kadoorie Biobank Study

Jun Lv,
Wei Chen,
Dianjianyi Sun,
Shengxu Li,
Iona Y. Millwood,
Margaret Smith,
Yu Guo,
Zheng Bian,
Canqing Yu,
Huiyan Zhou

Published: April 21, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124586

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