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Height with Age Affects Body Mass Index (BMI) Assessment of Chronic Disease Risk
Body mass index (BMI) is a function of weight and height, but changing height has not been emphasized. Using the Framingham Heart Study with 5 decades of data on anthropomorphic measurements and disease states, changing height with age was extracted, and BMI was calculated using current and “young”...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10649148/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37960347 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15214694 |
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description | Body mass index (BMI) is a function of weight and height, but changing height has not been emphasized. Using the Framingham Heart Study with 5 decades of data on anthropomorphic measurements and disease states, changing height with age was extracted, and BMI was calculated using current and “young” height (calculated as height at age < 40 years). Decreased height began at age 40, with a mean loss from ages 40 to 80 of 4.8 cm for women and 3.6 cm for men. Using cutoff values of 25 and 30 for overweight and obesity, ~12.5% of women and ~10% of men were misclassified. Comparable figures for obesity classification were ~10 and 8%. At age 70, ~20% of women and ~15% of men were misclassified. Using the BMI corrected to “young” height, obese subjects had an increased risk for developing pre-diabetes and diabetes, with a higher risk for women than men. Using corrected BMI, obese subjects had a higher risk for developing hypertension, lower than for diabetes and higher for men than for women. These data do not establish whether the increased disease risk is clinically important but demonstrate that there is an advantage to using BMI corrected for “young” height when compared with BMI using current age-related height. |
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spelling | pubmed-106491482023-11-06 Height with Age Affects Body Mass Index (BMI) Assessment of Chronic Disease Risk Holt, Peter R. Altayar, Osama Alpers, David H. Nutrients Article Body mass index (BMI) is a function of weight and height, but changing height has not been emphasized. Using the Framingham Heart Study with 5 decades of data on anthropomorphic measurements and disease states, changing height with age was extracted, and BMI was calculated using current and “young” height (calculated as height at age < 40 years). Decreased height began at age 40, with a mean loss from ages 40 to 80 of 4.8 cm for women and 3.6 cm for men. Using cutoff values of 25 and 30 for overweight and obesity, ~12.5% of women and ~10% of men were misclassified. Comparable figures for obesity classification were ~10 and 8%. At age 70, ~20% of women and ~15% of men were misclassified. Using the BMI corrected to “young” height, obese subjects had an increased risk for developing pre-diabetes and diabetes, with a higher risk for women than men. Using corrected BMI, obese subjects had a higher risk for developing hypertension, lower than for diabetes and higher for men than for women. These data do not establish whether the increased disease risk is clinically important but demonstrate that there is an advantage to using BMI corrected for “young” height when compared with BMI using current age-related height. MDPI 2023-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10649148/ /pubmed/37960347 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15214694 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Holt, Peter R. Altayar, Osama Alpers, David H. Height with Age Affects Body Mass Index (BMI) Assessment of Chronic Disease Risk |
title | Height with Age Affects Body Mass Index (BMI) Assessment of Chronic Disease Risk |
title_full | Height with Age Affects Body Mass Index (BMI) Assessment of Chronic Disease Risk |
title_fullStr | Height with Age Affects Body Mass Index (BMI) Assessment of Chronic Disease Risk |
title_full_unstemmed | Height with Age Affects Body Mass Index (BMI) Assessment of Chronic Disease Risk |
title_short | Height with Age Affects Body Mass Index (BMI) Assessment of Chronic Disease Risk |
title_sort | height with age affects body mass index (bmi) assessment of chronic disease risk |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10649148/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37960347 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15214694 |
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