Years of life lost due to obesity.

By K. Fontaine, D. Redden, Chenxi Wang, A. Westfall, David B. Allison. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2003

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Subfields: Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Surgery

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Citations in the corpus

• Quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. (2005, background): “Clearly, obesity has a substantial negative effect on longevity, reducing the length of life of people who are severely obese by an estimated 5 to 20 years, with the most pronounced detrimental effect noted in people who become extremely obese at a young age.(3)”
• Should We Tax Sugar-Sweetened Beverages? An Overview of Theory and Evidence (2019, background): “As one tragic example, obesity appears to cause people to die earlier, reducing the amount of Social Security benefits that obese people will claim (Fontaine et al. 2003; Bhattacharya and Sood 2011).”
• Guidelines for the prevention of stroke in patients with stroke and transient ischemic attack: a guideline for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. (2014, background): “is an established risk factor for CHD and premature mortality.(137,138) The risk is thought to be mediated substantially by”
• Economic causes and consequences of obesity. (2005, background): “Although annual health care costs among the obese are higher, investigators have suggested that lifetime costs may be lower because obese individuals have shorter life expectancies (24, 65).”
• Relationships between body roundness with body fat and visceral adipose tissue emerging from a new geometrical model (2013, background): “Because of its simplicity and established relationship with mortality (1,2) and obesity-related comorbidities (3,4), the BMI has been a long-standing accepted proxy for adiposity.”
• Random survival forests (2008, background): “Investigators have noted complex patterns surrounding possible reverse causation in underweight individuals, interactions with smoking, and an unclear inflection point at which point increasing body mass confers increased risk [Adams et al. (2006), Flegal (2005, 2007), Fontaine et al. (2003)].”
• Obesity in older adults: technical review and position statement of the American Society for Nutrition and NAASO, The Obesity Society. (2005, positive): “For example, in white men and women aged 20–30 y with severe obesity (BMI 45), the minimum years of life lost was 13 and 8, respectively (40).”
• The Super Size of America: An Economic Estimation of Body Mass Index and Obesity in Adults (2005, neutral): “Obesity in adulthood has been shown to reduce life expectancy, most notably at younger ages [Peeters et al., 2003; Fontaine et al., 2003].”
• Morbidity and mortality associated with obesity. (2017, background): “The life expectancy of a severely obese person is reduced by an estimated 5–20 years (112).”