Objective To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies of body mass
index (BMI) and the risk of all cause mortality, and to clarify the shape and the nadir of the …

Obesity is characterized by the accumulation of an excessive amount of fat mass (FM) in the
adipose tissue, subcutaneous, or inside certain organs. The risk does not lie so much in the …

Objective Development of these guidelines is mandated by the American Association of
Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) Board of Directors and the American College of …

Malnutrition is very prevalent in geriatric patients with hip fracture. Nevertheless, its
importance is not fully recognized. The objective of this paper is to review the impact of …

Objective To investigate the shape of the causal relation between body mass index (BMI)
and mortality. Design Linear and non-linear mendelian randomisation analyses. Setting …

Background Fat mass and fat-free mass may play independent roles in mortality risk but
available studies on body composition have yielded inconsistent results. Objective The aim …

Background There is debate whether body mass index is a good predictor of health
outcomes because different tissues, namely skeletal muscle mass (SMM) and fat mass (FM) …

Numerous studies have examined the association between body mass index and mortality
and often observed that risk of mortality was higher in those with lower body mass index …

but the advent of new weight loss drugs in the 1990s accelerated the medicalization of BMI.
A BMI category labeled obesity was adopted in 1997 by a World Health Organization …

Purpose A high phase angle measured by the Nutriguard® bioelectrical impedance analysis
device is associated with a reduced mortality risk in older people. This retrospective study …