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ArticleInternational journal of obesity (2005)2017

Body mass index as a predictor of healthy and disease-free life expectancy between ages 50 and 75: a multicohort study.

S Stenholm, J Head, V Aalto, M Kivimäki, I Kawachi, M Zins, M Goldberg, L G Platts, P Zaninotto, L L Magnusson Hanson and 2 more

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Article in International journal of obesity (2005), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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53 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 121 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 7 institutions in 5 countries.

S StenholmDepartment of Public Health, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.ORCID 0000-0001-7560-0930
J HeadDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK.
V AaltoFinnish Institute of Occupational Health, Turku, Finland.
M KivimäkiDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK.
I KawachiDepartment of Social &Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
M ZinsInserm, Population-based Epidemiologic Cohorts Unit-UMS 011, Villejuif, France.
M GoldbergInserm, Population-based Epidemiologic Cohorts Unit-UMS 011, Villejuif, France.
L G PlattsStress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
P ZaninottoDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK.
L L Magnusson HansonStress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
H WesterlundStress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
J VahteraDepartment of Public Health, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.
Stockholm University · SEDélégation Paris 5 · FRUniversity College London · GBUniversity of Turku · FIFinnish Institute of Occupational Health · FIHarvard University · USUniversity of Helsinki · FI

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/K013351/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundWhile many studies have shown associations between obesity and increased risk of morbidity and mortality, little comparable information is available on how body mass index (BMI) impacts health expectancy. We examined associations of BMI with healthy and chronic disease-free life expectancy in four European cohort studies.

methodsData were drawn from repeated waves of cohort studies in England, Finland, France and Sweden. BMI was categorized into four groups from normal weight (18.5-24.9 kg m

resultsThe proportion of life spent in good perceived health between ages 50 and 75 progressively decreased with increasing BMI from 81% in normal weight men and women to 53% in men and women with class II obesity which corresponds to an average 7-year difference in absolute terms. The proportion of life between ages 50 and 75 years without chronic diseases decreased from 62 and 65% in normal weight men and women and to 29 and 36% in men and women with class II obesity, respectively. This corresponds to an average 9 more years without chronic diseases in normal weight men and 7 more years in normal weight women between ages 50 and 75 years compared to class II obese men and women. No consistent differences were observed between cohorts.

conclusionsExcess BMI is associated with substantially shorter healthy and chronic disease-free life expectancy, suggesting that tackling obesity would increase years lived in good health in populations.

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Body Mass IndexHealth SurveysLife ExpectancyAgedCardiovascular DiseasesDiabetes MellitusEnglandFemaleFinlandFranceHealth StatusHumansMaleMiddle AgedObesityProspective Studies

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