Weight change in later life and risk of death amongst the elderly: the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition‐Elderly Network on Ageing and Health study

. Bamia C, Halkjær J, Lagiou P, Trichopoulos D, Tjønneland A, Berentzen TL, Overvad K, Clavel‐Chapelon F, Boutron‐Ruault M‐C, Rohrmann S, Linseisen J, Steffen A, Boeing H, May AM, Peeters PH, Bas Bueno‐de‐Mesquita H, van den Berg SW, Dorronsoro M, Barricarte A, Rodriguez Suarez L, Navarro C, González CA, Boffetta P, Pala V, Hallmans G, Trichopoulou A (University of Athens, Athens, Greece; Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Copenhagen, Denmark; Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Athens, Greece; Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece; Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark; Institute of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Center for Cardiovascular Research, Aalborg, Denmark; Institut Gustave‐Roussy, Paris, France; German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany; Institute of Epidemiology, Potsdam, Germany; German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam‐Rehbruecke, Potsdam, Germany; University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Public Health and Primary Care, London, UK; National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands; Public Health Department of Gipuzkoa & Ciberesp, San Sebastian, Spain; Health Institute of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain; CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain; Health and Healthcare services council, Asturias, Spain; Murcia Regional Health Council, Murcia, Spain; Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain; International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France; Fondazione IRCSS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy; and Nutritional Research, Umea, Sweden). Weight change in later life and risk of death amongst the elderly: the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition‐Elderly Network on Ageing and Health study. J Intern Med 2010; 268: 133–144. Objective. Later life weight change and mortality amongst elders. Design. Nested case–control study. Setting. Six countries from the European Investigation into Cancer and nutrition – Elderly, Network on Ageing and Health. Subjects. A total of 1712 deceased (cases) and 4942 alive (controls) were selected from 34 239 participants, ≥ 60 years at enrolment (1992–2000) who were followed‐up until March 2007. Annual weight change was estimated as the weight difference from recruitment to the most distant from‐date‐of‐death re‐assessment, divided by the respective time. Outcome measures. Mortality in relation to weight change