ArticleBMC public health2018
Association between body mass index and health-related quality of life among Chinese elderly-evidence from a community-based study.
Article in BMC public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed.
- Does the relationship between body mass index and health-related quality of life vary depending on early, middle and later adulthood?Family medicine and community health · 2026Article
- The association between one-year fall history and quality of life among older adults in the Geelong Osteoporosis Study: does fall frequency matter?European geriatric medicine · 2026Article
- Gender differences in the impact of emotional support networks on health-related quality of life among floating elderly: a cross-sectional study in China.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Association of daily physical activity with hypertension, depressive symptoms, loneliness, and poor sleep quality in aged 60-79 older adults.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Health-Related Quality of Life among Elderly Patients in Urban Bangladesh: A Cross-Sectional Study.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Effects of Mind-Body Qigong Exercise on Overall Health, Fatigue/Sleep, and Cognition in Older Chinese Immigrants in the US: An Intervention Study with Control.Journal of aging research · 2024Article
- A study on the physical aging characteristics of the older people over 70 years old in China.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Health-related quality of life in older women with injuries: a nationwide study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Quality of life profiles and their associations with depressive symptoms and cognitive impairment of community-dwelling older adults in Hong Kong.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Impaired health-related quality of life due to elevated risk of developing diabetes: A cross-sectional study in Indonesia.PloS one · 2023Article
- The relationship between anthropometric indicators and health-related quality of life in a community-based adult population: A cross-sectional study in Southern China.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Longitudinal transition of body mass index status and its associated factors among Chinese middle-aged and older adults in Markov model.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Optimal empiric treatment for KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae infections in critically ill patients with normal or decreased renal function using Monte Carlo simulation.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Stay Slim or Get Fat?: An Examination of the "Jolly Fat" Effect in Chinese Older Adults.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2021Article
- The Association Between Level of Physical Activity and Body Mass Index, and Quality of Life Among Elderly Women.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Addressing Obesity to Promote Healthy Aging.Clinics in geriatric medicine · 2020Review
- Health-Related Quality of Life of People with Self-Reported Hypertension: A National Cross-Sectional Survey in China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundThis study aimed to explore the effects of (body mass index) BMI on health related quality of life (HRQoL) among the elderly in Jiangsu, China.
methodsA total of 10,257 community dwelling elderly (≥60 years old) were enrolled in a cross-sectional study. HRQoL was measured via the Eq-5d-3 L. Chi-square tests and one-way ANOVA analyses were used to compare the frequencies and scores of Eq-5d responses among different BMI groups (defined as "underweight", "normal weight", "overweight" and "obese"). Logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine the associations between BMI and HRQoL.
resultsAmong the subjects, the proportion of "normal weight", "underweight", "overweight" and "obese" were 66.0, 8.3, 23.1, and 2.6%, respectively. The score of the Eq-5d index among total participants was 0.8036 and the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) score was 75.47. For both the responses frequency and scores of Eq-5d-3 L, there were significant differences among BMI groups (P < 0.001). The Logistic regression model showed that both in men and women, underweight elderly were more likely to suffer low HRQoL. The adjusted odds ratio (OR) with a 95% confidence interval (CI) for Eq-5d index/VAS was 2.03 (1.48, 2.79)/1.83 (1.34, 2.50) in men and 1.47(1.09,1.98)/1.52(1.20,1.91) in women. Overweight women more likely to have a low Eq-5d index, while overweight men were less likely to have a low Eq-5d VAS.
conclusionThis study shows that underweight is an explicit risk factor of low HRQoL in both the male and female elderly, while the effect of overweight on low HRQoL varies slightly by gender.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.