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BMC Public Health BioMed Central Research article Open Access Role of educational level in the relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and health-related quality of life (HRQL) among rural Spanish women María José García-Mendizábal†1,2, José Miguel Carrasco*†1,3, Beatriz Pérez- Gómez1,2, Nuria Aragonés1,2, Pilar Guallar-Castillón2,4, Fernando Rodríguez- Artalejo2,4, Gonzalo López-Abente1,2 and Marina Pollán 1,2 Address: 1Department of Environmental Epidemiology and Cancer, National Centre for Epidemiology, Carlos III Institute of Health, Madrid, Spain, 2Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology Public Health (CIBER en Epidemiología y Salud Pública – CIBERESP -), Spain, 3Aragon Health Sciences Institute, Zaragoza, Spain and 4Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Email: María José García-Mendizábal - mjota74@; José Miguel Carrasco* - jmcarrasco.iacs@aragon.es; Beatriz Pérez- Gómez - bperez@isciii.es; Nuria Aragonés - naragones@isciii.es; Pilar Guallar-Castillón - mpilar.guallar@uam.es; Fernando Rodríguez- Artalejo - fernando.artalejo@uam.es; Gonzalo López-Abente - glabente@isciii.es; Marina Pollán - mpollan@isciii.es * Corresponding author †Equal contributors Published: 30 April 2009 Received: 20 June 2008 Accepted: 30 April 2009 BMC Public Health 2009, 9:120 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-120 This article is available from: /1471-2458/9/120 © 2009 García-Mendizábal et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses