Disease-specific morbidity and mortality in obese men versus randomly selected Danish young men.

Abbreviations: n: number of events; HR: hazard ratio; CI: confidence interval.All analyses are adjusted for year of birth and stratified by district and examination period.Cause of death information was not available in the 35 (and 65 censored) men who died before January 1 1970 and the 69 men who died after December 31, 2006, respectively, and were therefore not included in the cause of death analyses.A total of 91 men died (and 100 men were censored) before January 1 1977, and where therefore not included in the incidence analyses.*The HR before the age of 60 years, hereafter it decreased to HR: 1.5 (95% CI: 1.0–2.3).