Relationship Between BMI and All‐cause Mortality in Japan: NIPPON DATA80

Relationship Between BMI and All‐cause Mortality in Japan: NIPPON DATA80

As body composition in Asian populations is largely different from Western populations, a healthy BMI could also differ between the two populations. Thus, further study is needed to determine whether a healthy BMI in Asians should be lower than Western populations, as recommended by the World Health...

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Veröffentlicht in:Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) Md.), 2008-07, Vol.16 (7), p.1714-1717
Hauptverfasser: Hozawa, Atsushi, Okamura, Tomonori, Oki, Izumi, Murakami, Yoshitaka, Kadowaki, Takashi, Nakamura, Koshi, Miyamatsu, Naomi, Hayakawa, Takehito, Kita, Yoshikuni, Nakamura, Yosikazu, Nakamura, Yasuyuki, Abbott, Robert D., Okayama, Akira, Ueshima, Hirotsugu
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Sprache:eng
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Adult
Age
Aged
Antihypertensives
Asian Continental Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data
Asian people
Blood pressure
Body composition
Body Mass Index
Diabetes
Disease
Epidemiology
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Gender
Health care
Humans
Japan - epidemiology
Male
Middle Aged
Mortality
Mortality - ethnology
Overweight - ethnology
Overweight - mortality
Preventive medicine
Reference Values
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Time Factors
Vital statistics
Weight control
Womens health
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Zusammenfassung:As body composition in Asian populations is largely different from Western populations, a healthy BMI could also differ between the two populations. Thus, further study is needed to determine whether a healthy BMI in Asians should be lower than Western populations, as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). We investigated the relationship between BMI and mortality in a sample of 8,924 Japanese men and women without stroke or heart disease. During 19 years of follow‐up, 1,718 deaths were observed. We found a U‐shaped relationship between BMI and fatal events. Risk of total mortality was highest in participants with BMI
ISSN:1930-7381
1930-739X
DOI:10.1038/oby.2008.237