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The consequences of geriatric obesity include impaired physical function, decreased quality of life, institutionalization and death.
Overweight BMI classification or a higher BMI value may be protective with regard to all-cause mortality, relative to normal BMI, in older adults. These findings demonstrate the potential need for age-specific BMI cut-points in older adults.
22 cze 2020 · Obesity, as defined by BMI (Table 1), is associated with an increased risk of all-cause mortality, with CVD and malignancy being the most common causes of death. 5 – 8 A meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies involving 10.6 million individuals from Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and North America found that all-cause mortality was lowest...
1,3. Editor: Lindsay Brown. Author information. Article notes. Copyright and License information. PMCID: PMC10096985 PMID: 37049633. Abstract. “Obesity paradox” describes the counterintuitive finding that aged overweight and obese people with a particular disease may have better outcomes than their normal weight or underweight counterparts.
20 sie 2020 · Among studies examining BMI change, increases in BMI demonstrated lower mortality risks compared with decreases in BMI (HR: 0.83-0.95). Overweight BMI classification or a higher BMI value may be protective with regard to all-cause mortality, relative to normal BMI, in older adults.
7 mar 2023 · This information has provided the most comprehensive and reliable data on the relationship between different measures of obesity and cause-specific mortality yet available in older...
10 maj 2016 · Results: During 12 years of follow-up, we observed 1035 incident CVD events and 1902 overall deaths. Obesity was associated with an increased risk of CVD among men (HR 1.57 (95% confidence...
