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Observational studyMedicine2016

Childhood Body Weight in Relation to Cause-Specific Mortality: 67 Year Follow-up of Participants in the 1947 Scottish Mental Survey.

George David Batty, Catherine M Calvin, Caroline E Brett, Iva Čukić, Ian J Deary

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Observational study in Medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

George David BattyFrom the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London (GDB), London; Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology (GDB, CMC, CEB, IČ, IJD); and Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh (CMC, CEB, IČ, IJD), Edinburgh, UK.
Catherine M Calvin
Caroline E Brett
Iva Čukić
Ian J Deary
Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod · FRInstitutes for Journalism and Natural Resources · USCreative Commons · US

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilMedical Research Council G1001401Medical Research Council MR/K026992/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The association between childhood body weight and adult health has been little-examined, and findings are inconsistent.In a representative sample of the Scottish nation (the Scottish Mental Survey of 1947), we examined the association between body mass index measured at 11 years of age and future cause-specific mortality by age 77 years. In this cohort study, a maximum of 67 years of follow-up of 3839 study members gave rise to 1568 deaths (758 from cardiovascular disease, 610 from any malignancy). After adjustment for covariates, there was some evidence of a relation between elevated childhood body mass index and rates of mortality ascribed to all-causes (hazard ratio per 1 SD increase in body mass index; 95% confidence interval: 1.09; 1.03, 1.14), cardiovascular disease (1.09; 1.01, 1.17), all cancers combined (1.12; 1.03, 1.21), smoking-related cancers (1.13; 1.03, 1.25), and breast cancer in women (1.27; 1.04, 1.56).In conclusion, we provide further observational evidence for the need for weight control measures in youth.

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Body Mass IndexCause of DeathAgedCardiovascular DiseasesChildFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHealth SurveysHumansMaleMultivariate AnalysisPediatric ObesityProspective StudiesScotland

Identifiers

PMID26871765
PMCPMC4753859
OpenAlexW2301315272

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