Open AccessAdiposity in middle and old age and risk of death from dementia: 40-year follow-up of 19,000 men in the Whitehall study
Author(s) -
Alexander Allen,
Robert Clarke,
Martin J. Shipley,
David A. Leon
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
age and ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1468-2834
pISSN - 0002-0729
DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afy182
Subject(s) - medicine , dementia , hazard ratio , body mass index , demography , obesity , proportional hazards model , gerontology , prospective cohort study , middle age , confidence interval , disease , sociology
o examine the hypothesis that obesity is protective for dementia, we compared the associations of death from dementia with body weight and body mass index (BMI) in both middle and old age.
Accelerating Research
Robert Robinson Avenue,
Oxford Science Park, Oxford
OX4 4GP, United Kingdom
Address
John Eccles HouseRobert Robinson Avenue,
Oxford Science Park, Oxford
OX4 4GP, United Kingdom