Weight, height and body mass index distributions in geographically and ethnically diverse samples of older persons

Age and Ageing,  July, 1996  by Lenore J. Launer,  Tamara Harris

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Authors' addresses

L. J. Launer National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection, RIVM/CCM, PO Box 1, 3720 BA, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

T. Harris Epidemiology, Demography and Biostatistics Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, USA

Received in revised form 11 December 1995

Appendix. Contributors to the Ad Hoc Committee on the Statistics of Anthropometry and Aging

B. H.-H. Hsu-Hage, M. L. Wahlqvist. Department of Medicine, Monash Medical Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (Melbourne Chinese Health Study).

R. Sichieri, D. C. Coltinho, M. M. Leao. Centro Nacional de Epidemiologia e Informacao, Hospital do Apareiho Locomotor, Brasilia-DF Brazil (Brazilian National Survey of Health and Nutrition, 1989).

Kayou Ge. Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Beijing, China (Chinese Nationwide Nutrition Survey).

A. Rissanen, M. Heliovaara. The Social Insurance Institution of Finland, Helsinki, Finland (The Mini-Finland Health Survey).

N. W. Solomons, M. Mazariegos, I. Mendoza. Cessiam, Hospital de Ojos y Oidos, Guatemala City, Guatemala (Nutritional Assessment of Guatemalan Ambulatory Elderly).

S. C. Ho. Department of Community and Family Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (Longitudinal Study of Health and Social Support in the Hong Kong Chinese Elderly Cohort).

A. Ferro-Luzzi, G. Maiani, C. Scaccini. National Institute of Nutrition and WHO Coordinating Centre in Nutrition, Rome, Italy (Nutrition in Old Age in Italy).

G. Enzi, M. R. A. Gatto, E. M. Inelmen. Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Geriatrics, University of Padova, Padova and Institute of Hygiene, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy (Italian Nutrition Examination Survey of the Elderly).

D. E. Grobbee. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Erasmus University Medical School, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (Rotterdam Study).

J. H. Madans, J. J. Feldman, T. Harris. National Center for Health Statisics, Hyattsville, MD, USA (NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study).

Coordinating Centre, M. L. Wahlqvist (chairman). Department of Medicine, Monash Medical Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (IUNS Study of Food Habits in Later Life).

R. S. Cooper for the ICSHIB Investigators, Department of Preventive Medicine, Loyola University Medical School, Maywood, IL, USA (The International Collaborative Study on Hypertension in Blacks).

M-C. Chang, A. Hermalin, J. Liang. Institute of Gerontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA (1989 Survey of Health and Living Status of the Elderly in Taiwan).

Epidemiology, Demography and Biostatistics Program. National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD, USA (Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly).

W. A. van Staveren, C. P. G. M. de Groot, J. G. A. G. Hautvast. Department of Human Nutrition, Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, the Netherlands (Euronut Seneca Study on Nutrition and the Elderly).

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