Investigation of Methodological Factors Potentially Underlying the Apparently Paradoxical Findings on Body Mass Index and All-Cause Mortality

Does Being Overweight Really Reduce Mortality?

(2015) Deirdre K. Tobias et al.   Obesity

Association of All-Cause Mortality With Overweight and Obesity Using Standard Body Mass Index Categories

(2013) Katherine M. Flegal et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Does Body Mass Index Adequately Convey a Patient's Mortality Risk?

(2013) Steven B. Heymsfield et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

(2012) Stephen S Lim et al.   LANCET

Validity of self-reported height and weight and derived body mass index in middle-aged and elderly individuals in Australia

(2011) Suan Peng Ng et al.   AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

National, regional, and global trends in body-mass index since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 960 country-years and 9·1 million participants

(2011) Mariel M Finucane et al.   LANCET

Reverse Causation and Illness-related Weight Loss in Observational Studies of Body Weight and Mortality

(2010) K. M. Flegal et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Categorisation of continuous exposure variables revisited. A response to the Hyperglycaemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome (HAPO) Study

(2010) Kathrine F Frøslie et al.   BMC Medical Research Methodology

Body-Mass Index and Mortality among 1.46 Million White Adults

(2010) Amy Berrington de Gonzalez et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Body-mass index and cause-specific mortality in 900 000 adults: collaborative analyses of 57 prospective studies

(2009) Prospective Studies Collaboration   LANCET

BMI and Mortality: Results From a National Longitudinal Study of Canadian Adults

(2009) Heather M. Orpana et al.   Obesity

Adjusting for reverse causality in the relationship between obesity and mortality

(2008) W D Flanders et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

General and Abdominal Adiposity and Risk of Death in Europe

(2008) T. Pischon et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE