Association between body mass index and all-cause death in Japanese population: pooled individual participant data analysis of 13 cohort studies.

CONCLUSION: A BMI of 22-24.9 kg/m2 correlated with the lowest risk of mortality, regardless of whether all participants or selected healthy participants were analyzed. The fact that smoking was more strongly associated with mortality than did obesity would emphasize the urgency for effective anti-smoking programs. PMID: 30393269 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Epidemiology - Category: Epidemiology Tags: J Epidemiol Source Type: research