Just a quick post on some data reported in Section 6 of NICE Clinical Guideline 43 (originally from a 2004 publication by Macran) which reports quality of life (QoL) by sex, and BMI and age brackets:1Macran S. The Relationship between Body Mass Index and Health-Related Quality of Life. 190. 2004. York, The Publications Office, Centre for Health Economics. Centre for Health Economics Discussion … Continue reading
The only unexpected aspect of the data is the high QoL in males with BMI greater than 40 aged 25-34 and females aged 18-24, but that’s likely driven by low sample size. Otherwise, there’s a general downward trend with age and an inverted J-shaped curve with respect to BMI, which approximately mirrors the J-shaped curves observed when plotting BMI against mortality 2Berrington de Gonzalez A, Hartge P, Cerhan JR et al. Body-mass index and mortality among 1.46 million white adults. N Engl J Med. 2010;363(23):2211–9.,3Tobias DK, Pan A, Jackson CL et al. Body-mass index and mortality among adults with incident type 2 diabetes. N Engl J Med. 2014;370(3):233–44.,4Dudina A, Cooney MT, Bacquer DD et al. Relationships between body mass index, cardiovascular mortality, and risk factors: a report from the SCORE investigators. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil. … Continue reading and certain diabetes complications.5Sohn MW, Budiman-Mak E, Lee TA, Oh E, Stuck RM. Significant J-shaped association between body mass index (BMI) and diabetic foot ulcers. Diabetes Metab Res Rev. 2011;27(4):402–9.
References
| ↩1 | Macran S. The Relationship between Body Mass Index and Health-Related Quality of Life. 190. 2004. York, The Publications Office, Centre for Health Economics. Centre for Health Economics Discussion Paper. |
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| ↩2 | Berrington de Gonzalez A, Hartge P, Cerhan JR et al. Body-mass index and mortality among 1.46 million white adults. N Engl J Med. 2010;363(23):2211–9. |
| ↩3 | Tobias DK, Pan A, Jackson CL et al. Body-mass index and mortality among adults with incident type 2 diabetes. N Engl J Med. 2014;370(3):233–44. |
| ↩4 | Dudina A, Cooney MT, Bacquer DD et al. Relationships between body mass index, cardiovascular mortality, and risk factors: a report from the SCORE investigators. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil. 2011;18(5):731-42. |
| ↩5 | Sohn MW, Budiman-Mak E, Lee TA, Oh E, Stuck RM. Significant J-shaped association between body mass index (BMI) and diabetic foot ulcers. Diabetes Metab Res Rev. 2011;27(4):402–9. |