ArticleFrontiers in public health2023
Association of body roundness index and its trajectories with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality among a Chinese middle-aged and older population: A retrospective cohort study.
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- Relationship between body roundness index and mortality rates and life expectancy in populations with metabolic syndrome.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Article
- Association between body roundness index and risks of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in adults with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: NHANES 1999-2018.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Elevated body roundness index increases the risk of cardiovascular disease in Chinese patients with circadian syndrome.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- The L-shaped association between body roundness index and all-cause mortality in osteoporotic patients: a cohort study based on NHANES data.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Body Roundness Index Trajectories and the Risk of Cancer: A Cohort Study.Cancer medicine · 2024Article
- The Relationship Between BRI and Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Older Adults: A CLHLS-Based Study.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2024Article
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Abstract
Objectives: The body roundness index (BRI) is a novel anthropometric index that is a better indicator for predicting fat distribution than the body mass index (BMI). The longitudinal study can repeatedly collect measured results for the variables to be studied and then consider the potential effects of intraindividual changes in measurement. However, few population-based, longitudinal studies of BRI have been conducted, especially among the Chinese population. The study aimed to investigate the association of BRI and its longitudinal trajectories with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. Methods: A total of 71,166 participants with four times BRI measurements between January 2010 and December 2019 were included in this longitudinal study, with a median follow-up was 7.93 years, and 11,538 deaths were recorded, of which 5,892 deaths were due to cardiovascular disease (CVD). A latent class growth mixture modeling (LCGMM) was used to identify BRI trajectories. Cox proportional hazard models were used to estimate associations between BRI trajectories and the risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. Results: In the restricted cubic spline regression models, a U-shaped relationship between BRI and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality was observed. Three BRI longitudinal trajectories of low-stable (mean BRI = 2.59), moderate-stable (mean BRI = 3.30), and high-stable (mean BRI = 3.65) were identified by LCGMM. After being adjusted for potential confounders, the HRs for all-cause mortality were 1.18 (1.13-1.24) for the moderate-stable group and 1.74 (1.66-1.82) for the high-stable group compared to the low-stable group. The HRs for cardiovascular mortality were 1.12 (1.05-1.18) for the moderate-stable group and 1.64 (1.53-1.75) for the high-stable group compared to the low-stable group. Conclusion: A nonlinear association of BRI with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality was observed, and participants in the higher BRI longitudinal trajectory group were significantly associated with an increased risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality.
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