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Adiposity and weight change in mid-life in relation to healthy survival after age 70 in women
— prospective cohort study | | Author(s) | Qi Sun, Mary K Townsend, Olivia I Okereke |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 339, no 7725, 10 October 2009 |
| Pages | p 851 |
| Source | www.bmj.com |
| Keywords | Older women ; Middle aged ; Obesity ; Weight ; Longevity ; Over 70s ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Does mid-life adiposity have any impact on overall health status among women who escape premature death and survive to older age? Study participants were a subset of the Nurses' Health Study, consisting of female registered nurses in the US. The authors identified 17,065 women for whom disease status, cognitive and physical functioning, and mental health were ascertained at age 70 or older. Information on body weight and height was collected at baseline in 1975, when these study participants were, on average, aged 50. Of those who survived until at least age 70, 1686 (9.9%) met criteria for healthy survival. Midlife adiposity, as well as weight change between age 18 and midlife, decreases the possibility of maintaining optimal overall health status at older ages in women. Women who are lean in early adulthood and maintain a healthy body weight thereafter have the highest probability of achieving healthy survival. This a summary of a paper published on bmj.com as BMJ 2009:339:b3796. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-091029212 A |
| Classmark | BD: SE: CSA: 4X6: BGA: BBK: 7T * |
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