Body mass trajectories and multimorbidity in old age: 12-year results from a population-based study

• Published in: Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) Vol. 40; no. 12; pp. 5764 - 5770
• Main Authors: Calderón-Larrañaga, Amaia, Hu, Xiaonan, Guo, Jie, Ferrucci, Luigi, Xu, Weili, Vetrano, Davide L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2021
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Aging - physiology; Body Mass Index; Body-Weight Trajectory; cardiovascular diseases; Chronic disease; Chronic Disease - epidemiology; chronic diseases; clinical nutrition; death; education; Female; Humans; Latent Class Analysis; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Middle Aged; Multimorbidity; national surveys; Older adults; Sweden - epidemiology; Trajectories; underweight; weight loss; Sweden; Body mass index; Trajectories; Chronic disease; Older adults; Multimorbidity

Body weight changes reflect and impact several health conditions in older age, but little is known about its relationship with multimorbidity. We aimed to study the association of long-terms trajectories of body mass index (BMI) with contemporaneous changes in multimorbidity −and multimorbidity type...