Underweight as a risk factor for respiratory death in the Whitehall cohort study: exploring reverse causality using a 45-year follow-up
Journal Title: | Thorax 2016-01, Vol.71 (1), p.84-85 |
Main Author: | Kivimäki, Mika |
Other Authors: | Shipley, Martin J , Bell, Joshua A , Brunner, Eric J , Batty, G David , Singh-Manoux, Archana |
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Publisher: | England: BMJ Publishing Group LTD |
ID: | ISSN: 0040-6376 |
Link: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26253581 |
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title: | Underweight as a risk factor for respiratory death in the Whitehall cohort study: exploring reverse causality using a 45-year follow-up |
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description: | Underweight adults have higher rates of respiratory death than the normal weight but it is unclear whether this association is causal or reflects illness-induced weight loss (reverse causality). Evidence from a 45-year follow-up of underweight participants for respiratory mortality in the Whitehall study (N=18 823; 2139 respiratory deaths) suggests that excess risk among the underweight is attributable to reverse causality. The age-adjusted and smoking-adjusted risk was 1.55-fold (95% CI 1.32 to 1.83) higher among underweight compared with normal weight participants, but attenuated in a stepwise manner to 1.14 (95% CI 0.76 to 1.71) after serial exclusions of deaths during the first 5–35 years of follow-up (Ptrend |
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