Past body mass index and risk of mortality among women

International Journal of Obesity

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 730-739

  Moore, S C ^a,b   Mayne, S T ^b   Graubard, B I ^a   Schatzkin, A ^a   Albanes, D ^a   Schairer, C ^a   Hoover, R N ^a   Leitzmann, M F ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass; Epidemiology; Life expectancy; Mortality; Overweight; Weight

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THINNESS;

EID: 43449130706     PISSN: 03070565     EISSN: 14765497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ijo.0803801     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Manson JE, Willett WC, Stampfer MJ, Colditz GA, Hunter DJ, Hankinson SE et al. Body weight and mortality among women. N Engl J Med 1995; 333: 677-685.
2. Calle EE, Thun MJ, Petrelli JM, Rodriguez C, Heath Jr CW. Body-mass index and mortality in a prospective cohort of U.S. adults. N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 1097-1105.
3. Flegal KM, Graubard BI, Williamson DF, Gail MH. Excess deaths associated with underweight, overweight, and obesity. JAMA 2005; 293: 1861-1867.
4. Gu D, He J, Duan X, Reynolds K, Wu X, Chen J et al. Body weight and mortality among men and women in China. JAMA 2006; 295: 776-783.
5. Dey DK, Rothenberg E, Sundh V, Bosaeus I, Steen B. Body mass index, weight change and mortality in the elderly. A 15 y longitudinal population study of 70 y olds. Eur J Clin Nutr 2001; 55: 482-492.
6. Breeze E, Clarke R, Shipley MJ, Marmot MG, Fletcher AE. Cause-specific mortality in old age in relation to body mass index in middle age and in old age: follow-up of the Whitehall cohort of male civil servants. Int J Epidemiol 2006; 35: 169-178.
7. Ogden CL, Carroll MD, Curtin LR, McDowell MA, Tabak CJ, Flegal KM. Prevalence of overweight and obesity in the United States, 1999-2004. JAMA 2006; 295: 1549-1555.
8. Prentice AM. The emerging epidemic of obesity in developing countries. Int J Epidemiol 2006; 35: 93-99.
9. Willett WC, Dietz WH, Colditz GA. Guidelines for healthy weight. N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 427-434.
10. Stevens J, Juhaeri, Cai J. Changes in body mass index prior to baseline among participants who are ill or who die during the early years of follow-up. Am J Epidemiol 2001; 153: 946-953.
11. Stevens J. Impact of age on associations between weight and mortality. Nutr Rev 2000; 58: 129-137.
12. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Cigarette smoking-attributable morbidity - United States, 2000. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2003; 52: 842-844.
13. Flegal KM, Graubard BI, Gail MH, Williamson DF. Underweight, overweight, obesity, and excess deaths - reply. JAMA 2005; 294: 552b .
14. Society of Actuaries and the Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors of America. Build Study 1979, 1st edn. Society of Actuaries and the Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors of America: Chicago, 1999.
15. Blair BF, Haines LW. Mortality experience according to build at the higher durations. Trans Soc Actuaries 1966; 18: 35-45.
16. Calle EE, Teras LR, Thun MJ. Obesity and mortality. N Engl J Med 2005; 353: 2197-2199.
17. Losonczy KG, Harris TB, Cornoni-Huntley J, Simonsick EM, Wallace RB, Cook NR et al. Does weight loss from middle age to old age explain the inverse weight mortality relation in old age? Am J Epidemiol 1995; 141: 312-321.
18. van Dam RM, Willett WC, Manson JE, Hu FB. The relationship between overweight in adolescence and premature death in women. Ann Intern Med 2006; 145: 91-97.
19. Adams KF, Schatzkin A, Harris TB, Kipnis V, Mouw T, Ballard-Barbash R et al. Overweight, obesity, and mortality in a large prospective cohort of persons 50 to 71 years old. N Engl J Med 2006; 355: 763-778.
20. Beahrs OH, Shapiro S, Smart CR. Report of the working group to review the National Cancer Institute-American Cancer Society Breast Cancer Detection Demonstration Projects. J Natl Cancer Inst 1979; 62: 639-709.
21. Schairer C, Byrne C, Keyl PM, Brinton LA, Sturgeon SR, Hoover RN. Menopausal estrogen and estrogen-progestin replacement therapy and risk of breast cancer (United States). Cancer Causes Control 1994; 5: 491-500.
22. Munoz KA, Ballard-Barbash R, Graubard B, Swanson CA, Schairer C, Kahle LL. Recall of body weight and body size estimation in women enrolled in the breast cancer detection and demonstration project (BCDDP). Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 1996; 20: 854-859.
23. Colbert LH, Lacey Jr JV, Schairer C, Albert P, Schatzkin A, Albanes D. Physical activity and risk of endometrial cancer in a prospective cohort study (United States). Cancer Causes Control 2003; 14: 559-567.
24. Albanes D, Conway JM, Taylor PR, Moe PW, Judd J. Validation and comparison of eight physical activity questionnaires. Epidemiology 1990; 1: 65-71.
25. Rich-Edwards JW, Corsano KA, Stampfer MJ. Test of the national death index and Equifax nationwide death search. Am J Epidemiol 1994; 140: 1016-1019.
26. World Health Organization. Physical status: the use and interpretation of anthropometry. Report of a WHO expert committee. World Health Organ Tech Rep Ser 1995; 1995: 1-452.
27. Kant AK, Schatzkin A, Graubard BI, Schairer C. A prospective study of diet quality and mortality in women. JAMA 2000; 283: 2109-2115.
28. Durrleman S, Simon R. Flexible regression models with cubic splines. Stat Med 1989; 8: 551-561.
29. Ghali WA, Quan H, Brant R, van Melle G, Norris CM, Faris PD et al. Comparison of 2 methods for calculating adjusted survival curves from proportional hazards models. JAMA 2001; 286: 1494-1497.
30. Korn EL, Graubard BI. Analysis of Health Surveys, 1st edn. Wiley: New York, 1999.
31. Efron B, Tibshirani RJ. An Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1st edn. Chapman & Hall: New York, 1993.
32. Fontaine KR, Redden DT, Wang C, Westfall AO, Allison DB. Years of life lost due to obesity. JAMA 2003; 289: 187-193.
33. Peeters A, Barendregt JJ, Willekens F, Mackenbach JP, Al Mamun A, Bonneux L. Obesity in adulthood and its consequences for life expectancy: a life-table analysis. Ann Intern Med 2003; 138: 24-32.
34. Perry GS, Byers TE, Mokdad AH, Serdula MK, Williamson DF. The validity of self-reports of past body weights by U.S. adults. Epidemiology 1995; 6: 61-66.
35. Romero-Corral A, Montori VM, Somers VK, Korinek J, Thomas RJ, Allison TG et al. Association of bodyweight with total mortality and with cardiovascular events in coronary artery disease: a systematic review of cohort studies. Lancet 2006; 368: 666-678.
36. The BMI in Diverse Populations Collaborative Group. Effect of smoking on the body mass index-mortality relation: empirical evidence from 15 studies. Am J Epidemiol 1999; 150: 1297-1308.
37. Folsom AR, Kaye SA, Sellers TA, Hong CP, Cerhan JR, Potter JD et al. Body fat distribution and 5-year risk of death in older women. JAMA 1993; 269: 483-487.
38. Corrada MM, Kawas CH, Mozaffar F, Paganini-Hill A. Association of body mass index and weight change with all-cause mortality in the elderly. Am J Epidemiol 2006; 163: 938-949.
39. Allison DB, Faith MS, Heo M, Townsend-Butterworth D, Williamson DF. Meta-analysis of the effect of excluding early deaths on the estimated relationship between body mass index and mortality. Obes Res 1999; 7: 342-354.
40. Lange P, Vestbo J, Nyboe J. Risk factors for death and hospitalization from pneumonia. A prospective study of a general population. Eur Respir J 1995; 8: 1694-1698.
41. Sacks LV, Pendle S. Factors related to in-hospital deaths in patients with tuberculosis. Arch Intern Med 1998; 158: 1916-1922.