Journal article
It's Absolutely Relative: The Effect of Age on the BMI-Mortality Relationship in Postmenopausal Women
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), Vol.28(1), pp.171-177
01/2020
DOI: 10.1002/oby.22662
PMCID: PMC6989046
PMID: 31799808
Abstract
The use of relative and absolute effect estimates has important implications for the interpretation of study findings. Likewise, examining additive and multiplicative interaction can lead to differing conclusions about the joint effects of two exposure variables. The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between BMI and mortality on the relative and absolute scales and investigate interaction between BMI and age.\nData from 68,132 participants in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study were used. The risk ratio and risk difference of BMI on mortality were estimated. A product term was also included to examine interaction between BMI and age on the multiplicative scale, and the relative excess risk of interaction was calculated to measure additive interaction.\nResults demonstrated that the mortality risk ratio decreased as women aged, but the mortality risk difference increased as women aged. Evidence of additive and multiplicative interaction between age and BMI was found.\nIn postmenopausal women, the relative mortality risk associated with high BMI decreased with increasing age, but the absolute risk of high BMI increased with increasing age. This indicates the importance of considering the interaction between age and BMI to understand mortality risk in older women.
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- Title: Subtitle
- It's Absolutely Relative: The Effect of Age on the BMI-Mortality Relationship in Postmenopausal Women
- Creators
- Hailey R Banack - Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, School of Public Health and Health Professions, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USAJennifer W Bea - Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USAAndrew Stokes - Department of Global Health and Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USACandyce H Kroenke - Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, USAMarcia L Stefanick - Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USAShirley A Beresford - Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USAChloe E Bird - RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, USALorena Garcia - Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USARobert Wallace - Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USARobert A Wild - Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USABette Caan - Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, USAJean Wactawski-Wende - Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, School of Public Health and Health Professions, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), Vol.28(1), pp.171-177
- DOI
- 10.1002/oby.22662
- PMID
- 31799808
- PMCID
- PMC6989046
- NLM abbreviation
- Obesity (Silver Spring)
- ISSN
- 1930-7381
- eISSN
- 1930-739X
- Publisher
- United States
- Grant note
- HHSN268201600018C / NHLBI NIH HHS\nHHSN268201600003C / NHLBI NIH HHS\nHHSN268201600004C / NHLBI NIH HHS\nHHSN268201600002C / NHLBI NIH HHS\nCIHR\nHHSN268201600001C / NHLBI NIH HHS\nN01 WH032122 / WHI NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/2020
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology; Injury Prevention Research Center; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984066103702771
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