Conclusion These findings suggest that the calibrated BMI trajectories for the period from mid-life to elderly adulthood have a significant effect on the risk of incident hypertension. The period from ...

“BMI cannot distinguish body fat from muscle mass,” Wenquan Niu, who works at the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine at the Capital Institute of Pediatrics in Beijing and was a senior author ...

Background For the elderly, the association between waist circumference (WC) and mortality considering body mass index (BMI) remains unclear, and thereby also the evidence base for using these ...

Everybody knows that losing excess pounds lowers health risks, but the opposite may be true for many seniors. Numerous studies show that seniors who lose weight have higher mortality rates.

BMI was calculated as weight/height 2 (kg/m 2 ... Third, our findings were obtained from community-based subjects and cannot be generalised to the whole middle-aged and elderly population in Taiwan.

A lower BMI was significantly associated with the T-score at the femoral site (p=0.04) but not at the lumbar spine site (p=0.18). Conclusion Our study showed that in elderly patients followed for RA, ...