Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Mortality, and Overweight—Reply
- Katherine M. Flegal, PhD kmf2@cdc.govNational Center for Health StatisticsCenters for Disease Control and PreventionHyattsville, Maryland;
- Barry I. Graubard, PhDDivision of Cancer Epidemiology and GeneticsNational Cancer InstituteBethesda, Maryland;
- David F. Williamson, PhDRollins School of Public HealthEmory UniversityAtlanta, Georgia;
- Mitchell H. Gail, MD, PhDDivision of Cancer Epidemiology and GeneticsNational Cancer Institute
Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text.
- KEYWORDS:
- CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES
- CORONARY DISEASE
- DIABETES MELLITUS
- HYPERTENSION
- MORTALITY
- OBESITY
- OVERWEIGHT
- RISK FACTORS
In Reply: We thank Drs McTigue and Kuller for pointing out some health effects and medical costs that are not measured by cause-specific mortality, the focus of our study.
Financial Disclosures: None reported.
Letters Section Editor: Robert M. Golub, MD, Senior Editor.
