The Impact of Obesity on US Mortality Levels: The Importance of Age and Cohort Factors in Population Estimates

Re-examining the age effect on the weight-mortality relationshhip: age of death, age of weight and cohort effect. CDEWorking Paper 2008-18

Yan Yu
Yan Yu

January 2008

The majority of US adults are overweight or obese. Contemporary cohorts have been gaining weight con...

Printed in U.S.A. DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwh222 Methods of Calculating Deaths Attributable to Obesity

Am J Epidemiol
Katherine M. Flegal
Barry I. Graubard
David F. Williamson

January 2003

Previously reported estimates of deaths attributable to obesity in the United States have been based...

Assessing the Impacts of Smoking and Obesity on Mortality and Morbidity in the United States

Cao, Bochen

January 2015

Assessing the Impacts of Smoking and Obesity on Mortality and Morbidity in the United States Bochen ...

The Impact of Obesity on US Mortality Levels: The Importance of Age and Cohort Factors in Population Estimates

Masters, Ryan K.
Reither, Eric N.
Powers, Daniel A.
Yang, Y. Claire
Burger, Andrew E.
Link, Bruce G.

January 2013

To estimate the percentage of excess death for US Black and White men and women associated with high...

Contribution of Ethnicity, Sex, and Age to the Relationship between Obesity and Mortality: Analyses from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)

Barbosa, David Andrew

August 2022

Background: Risk factors of obesity are well documented and there are various clinical tools used t...

Data Talks: Obesity-Related Influences on US Mortality Rates

D’Souza, Malcolm J.
Bautista, Riza C.
Wentzien, Derald E.

June 2018

Background: In the US, obesity is an epidemiologic challenge and the population fails to comprehend ...

Excess mortality associated with elevated body weight in the USA by state and demographic subgroup: A modelling study

Ward, Zachary J
Willett, Walter C
Hu, Frank B
Pacheco, Lorena S
Long, Michael W
Gortmaker, Steven L

June 2022

Background: The obesity epidemic in the USA continues to grow nationwide. Although excess weight-rel...

Age variation in the association between obesity and mortality in adults

Wang, Zhiqiang
Peng, Yang
Liu, Meina

December 2017

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the previously reported finding that the associatio...

Overweight and obesity in the mortality rate data: current evidence and research issues

Seidell, J C
Visscher, T L
Hoogeveen, R T

November 1999

PURPOSE: The relation between indicators of overweight (body mass index (BMI)) and all-cause mortali...

Mortality Attributable to Obesity among Middle-Aged Adults in the United States." Demography 46(4):851

Neil K. Mehta
Virginia
W. Chang

January 2009

Obesity is considered a major cause of premature mortality and a potential threat to the long-standi...

Body Mass Index and All-Cause Mortality in a Large Prospective Cohort of White and Black U.S. Adults

Alpa V. Patel
Janet S. Hildebr
Susan M. Gapstur

August 2016

Remaining controversies on the association between body mass index (BMI) and mortality include the e...

The Effect of Age on the Association between Body-Mass Index and Mortality

Stevens, June
Cai, Jianwen
Pamuk, Elsie R.
Williamson, David F.
Thun, Michael J.
Wood, Joy L.

January 1998

BACKGROUND: The effect of age on optimal body weight is controversial, and few studies have had adeq...

The contribution of differences in adiposity to educational disparities in mortality in the United States

Yana Vierboom

December 2017

Background: There are large differences in life expectancy by educational attainment in the United S...

Body mass index and all-cause mortality in a large prospective cohort of white and black U.S. Adults.

Alpa V Patel
Janet S Hildebrand
Susan M Gapstur

Remaining controversies on the association between body mass index (BMI) and mortality include the e...

The Contribution of Differences in Adiposity to Educational Disparities in Mortality in the United States

Vierboom, Yana

June 2017

Background: There are large differences in life expectancy by educational attainment in the United S...

Re-examining the age effect on the weight-mortality relationshhip: age of death, age of weight and cohort effect. CDEWorking Paper 2008-18

Yan Yu
Yan Yu

January 2008

The majority of US adults are overweight or obese. Contemporary cohorts have been gaining weight con...

Printed in U.S.A. DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwh222 Methods of Calculating Deaths Attributable to Obesity

Am J Epidemiol
Katherine M. Flegal
Barry I. Graubard
David F. Williamson

January 2003

Previously reported estimates of deaths attributable to obesity in the United States have been based...

Assessing the Impacts of Smoking and Obesity on Mortality and Morbidity in the United States

Cao, Bochen

January 2015

Assessing the Impacts of Smoking and Obesity on Mortality and Morbidity in the United States Bochen ...

The Impact of Obesity on US Mortality Levels: The Importance of Age and Cohort Factors in Population Estimates

Masters, Ryan K.
Reither, Eric N.
Powers, Daniel A.
Yang, Y. Claire
Burger, Andrew E.
Link, Bruce G.

January 2013

To estimate the percentage of excess death for US Black and White men and women associated with high...

Contribution of Ethnicity, Sex, and Age to the Relationship between Obesity and Mortality: Analyses from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)

Barbosa, David Andrew

August 2022

Background: Risk factors of obesity are well documented and there are various clinical tools used t...

Data Talks: Obesity-Related Influences on US Mortality Rates

D’Souza, Malcolm J.
Bautista, Riza C.
Wentzien, Derald E.

June 2018

Background: In the US, obesity is an epidemiologic challenge and the population fails to comprehend ...

Excess mortality associated with elevated body weight in the USA by state and demographic subgroup: A modelling study

Ward, Zachary J
Willett, Walter C
Hu, Frank B
Pacheco, Lorena S
Long, Michael W
Gortmaker, Steven L

June 2022

Background: The obesity epidemic in the USA continues to grow nationwide. Although excess weight-rel...

Age variation in the association between obesity and mortality in adults

Wang, Zhiqiang
Peng, Yang
Liu, Meina

December 2017

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the previously reported finding that the associatio...

Overweight and obesity in the mortality rate data: current evidence and research issues

Seidell, J C
Visscher, T L
Hoogeveen, R T

November 1999

PURPOSE: The relation between indicators of overweight (body mass index (BMI)) and all-cause mortali...

Mortality Attributable to Obesity among Middle-Aged Adults in the United States." Demography 46(4):851

Neil K. Mehta
Virginia
W. Chang

January 2009

Obesity is considered a major cause of premature mortality and a potential threat to the long-standi...

Body Mass Index and All-Cause Mortality in a Large Prospective Cohort of White and Black U.S. Adults

Alpa V. Patel
Janet S. Hildebr
Susan M. Gapstur

August 2016

Remaining controversies on the association between body mass index (BMI) and mortality include the e...

The Effect of Age on the Association between Body-Mass Index and Mortality

Stevens, June
Cai, Jianwen
Pamuk, Elsie R.
Williamson, David F.
Thun, Michael J.
Wood, Joy L.

January 1998

BACKGROUND: The effect of age on optimal body weight is controversial, and few studies have had adeq...

The contribution of differences in adiposity to educational disparities in mortality in the United States

Yana Vierboom

December 2017

Background: There are large differences in life expectancy by educational attainment in the United S...

Body mass index and all-cause mortality in a large prospective cohort of white and black U.S. Adults.

Alpa V Patel
Janet S Hildebrand
Susan M Gapstur

Remaining controversies on the association between body mass index (BMI) and mortality include the e...

The Contribution of Differences in Adiposity to Educational Disparities in Mortality in the United States

Vierboom, Yana

June 2017

Background: There are large differences in life expectancy by educational attainment in the United S...

Re-examining the age effect on the weight-mortality relationshhip: age of death, age of weight and cohort effect. CDEWorking Paper 2008-18

Yan Yu
Yan Yu

January 2008

The majority of US adults are overweight or obese. Contemporary cohorts have been gaining weight con...

Printed in U.S.A. DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwh222 Methods of Calculating Deaths Attributable to Obesity

Am J Epidemiol
Katherine M. Flegal
Barry I. Graubard
David F. Williamson

January 2003

Previously reported estimates of deaths attributable to obesity in the United States have been based...

Assessing the Impacts of Smoking and Obesity on Mortality and Morbidity in the United States

Cao, Bochen

January 2015

Assessing the Impacts of Smoking and Obesity on Mortality and Morbidity in the United States Bochen ...

The Impact of Obesity on US Mortality Levels: The Importance of Age and Cohort Factors in Population Estimates

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