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Association between body mass index and mortality in the Korean elderly: A nationwide cohort study.
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- Impact of underweight on 3-year all-cause mortality in patients with acute severe hypertension: a retrospective cohort study.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Association Between Body Mass Index and All-Cause Mortality in a Prospective Cohort of Southern Chinese Adults Without Morbid Obesity.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
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- Trajectories of Body Mass Index and Their Associations with Mortality among Older Adults in Korea: Analysis of the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging.Annals of geriatric medicine and research · 2020Article
- Dietary recommendations for patients with dementia.Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) · 2020Article
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Abstract
The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and mortality in the elderly. This study was a nation-wide population-based retrospective cohort study of the National Health Insurance System-Senior Database (NHIS-SD). In this study, a total of 75,856 subjects were identified and selected from among 251,593 individuals aged ≥ 65 years who underwent health screening at least once between 2009 and 2012 and who had no history of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The subjects of this study were followed-up until 2013 to identify the total mortality and the cause-specific mortality of 6 groups divided according to BMI. The hazard ratio (HR) by reference group (23 ≤ BMI < 25 kg/m2) of each group was calculated. A significant increase in the HR with a decreased BMI was observed in the group with a BMI < 23 kg/m2, whereas the HR in the group with a BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 was not significantly different than that of the reference group (23 ≤ BMI < 25 kg/m2). This pattern was also seen in the subgroup analyses in relation to age, smoking history, alcohol use, exercise level, and socioeconomic status. In this study, we found that a low BMI was a risk factor for death in the elderly and that no significant difference in mortality was seen in the elderly with a BMI of 25 or over. In terms of an optimal BMI in the elderly, it is important to maintain an appropriately healthy range of BMI with the aim of preventing weight loss.
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