The Effect of Age on the Association between Body-Mass Index and Mortality

Whether recommended body weight should remain constant throughout adulthood or should be higher for older adults is controversial. The Department of Agriculture's 1990 Dietary Guidelines for Americans 1 recommended age-specific ranges of weight for height, with heavier weights indicated for peo...

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Published inThe New England journal of medicine Vol. 338; no. 1; pp. 1 - 7
Main Authors Stevens, June, Cai, Jianwen, Pamuk, Elsie R, Williamson, David F, Thun, Michael J, Wood, Joy L
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston, MA Massachusetts Medical Society 01.01.1998
Subjects
Adult
Age
Age Factors
Aged
Aging - physiology
Biological and medical sciences
Body Mass Index
Body Weight
Cancer
Cause of Death
Cohort Studies
Diet
Disease prevention
European Continental Ancestry Group
Female
Health risk assessment
Humans
Likelihood Functions
Linear Models
Male
Medical sciences
Metabolic diseases
Middle Aged
Miscellaneous
Mortality
Other metabolic disorders
Population
Proportional Hazards Models
Risk Factors
Weight control
Women
Human
Evaluation
Mortality
Age criterion
Cardiovascular disease
Metabolic diseases
Body mass index
Association
Cancerology
Heart disease
Risk factor
Public health
Comparative study
Americas
Differential Mortality
Body Weight
Age Factors
United States
Biology
North America
Northern America
Developed Countries
Population Characteristics
Population
Physiology
Cardiovascular Effects
Demographic Factors
Population Dynamics
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Summary:Whether recommended body weight should remain constant throughout adulthood or should be higher for older adults is controversial. The Department of Agriculture's 1990 Dietary Guidelines for Americans 1 recommended age-specific ranges of weight for height, with heavier weights indicated for people 35 years of age or older, but age-specific weight recommendations were omitted from the 1995 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2 presumably because the information to support the need for different recommended weights was inadequate. The debate sparked by the dietary guidelines made it evident that more studies were needed to clarify whether age modifies the relation between body weight and mortality. . . .
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ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJM199801013380101