Does body mass index adequately convey a patient's mortality risk?
A partir d'une revue systématique de la littérature publiée jusqu'en septembre 2012 (97 études : nombre de participants : 2,88 millions), cette méta-analyse évalue, en fonction de 5 catégories d'indice de masse corporelle, l'association entre le surpoids ou l'obésité et la mortalité toutes causes confondues
A Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MLIC) statistician revealed an association between longevity and body weight in 1942. Lifespan was longest when body weight was maintained at the same level as 25-year-old adults with similar height and frame size. The initial 1942 MLIC ideal body weight tables were later revised to desirable weight tables in 1959 and again in 1983 to height and weight tables. Obesity was considered present when a person's weight exceeded his or her desirable weight by 20%.