Weight change in old age and its association with mortality

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1309-1318

  Newman, Anne B ^a,g   Yanez, David ^b   Harris, Tamara ^c   Duxbury, Andrew ^d   Enright, Paul L ^e   Fried, Linda P ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mortality; Weight gain; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEATH; FEMALE; GAIT; GRIP STRENGTH; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEGRO; PREDICTION; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SENESCENCE; SMOKING; SPOUSE; STROKE; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY WEIGHT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0034749950     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2001.49258.x     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Involuntary weight loss in elderly outpatients
2. Body mass index and mortality in non-smoking older adults: The cardiovascular health study
3. Involuntary weight loss in older outpatients: Incidence and clinical significance
4. Prospective study of intentional weight loss and mortality in overweight white men aged 40-64 years
5. Relation of weight variability and intentionality of weight loss to disease history and health-related variables in a population-based sample of women aged 55-69 years
6. The 10-year incidence of overweight and major weight gain in adults
7. Variability of body weight and healthy outcomes in the Framingham population
8. Control of food intake in older men
9. Carrying the burden of cardiovascular risk in old age: Associations of weight and weight change with prevalent cardiovascular disease, risk factors, and health status in Cardiovascular Health Study
10. A prospective study of weight change and health-related quality of life in women
11. Body mass index, weight change and death in an older hypertensive population: The SHEP study
12. Longitudinal weight changes over four years and associated risk factors in 629 men and woman aged over 65
13. Weight, weight change, and mortality in a random sample of older community-dwelling women
14. Long-term effects of change in body weight on all-cause mortality
15. New NHLBI clinical guidelines for obesity and overweight: Will they promote health?
16. Expert panel on the identification, evaluation and treatment of overweight and obesity in adults. Executive Summary on clinical guidelines on the identification, evaluation and treatment of overweight and obesity in adults
17. The Cardiovascular Health Study: Design and rationale
18. Eating patterns of community-dwelling older adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study
19. A questionnaire for the assessment of leisure time physical activities
20. Mini-mental state: A practical method for grading the cognitive status of patients for the clinician
21. Performance on the Digit Symbol Substitution Test and 5 year mortality in the Western Collaborative Group Study
22. Factorial and discriminate validity of the Center for the Epidemiologic Study of Depression (CES-D) scale
23. Assessment of methods for measuring social support
24. Does weight loss from middle age to old age explain the inverse weight mortality relation in old age?
25. Unintentional weight loss in the United States
26. Voluntary and involuntary weight loss: Associations with long term mortality in 9,228 middle-aged and elderly men
27. Anorexia of aging: Physiologic and pathologic
28. Neuroendocrine responses to starvation and weight loss
29. Energetic adaptation to chronic disease in the elderly
30. Body mass index and mortality in a prospective cohort of U.S. adults
31. Risk factors for 5-year mortality in older adults
32. The effect of age on the association between body-mass index and mortality
33. Effect of age on excess mortality in obesity
34. Body weight and the three-year prognosis in very old people
35. High body fatness, but not low fat-free mass, predicts disability in older men and women: The Cardiovascular Health Study