Body mass index and disability in adulthood : A 20... Catalogue en ligne

Titre :	Body mass index and disability in adulthood : A 20-year panel study. (2002)
Auteurs :	Kenneth-F FERRARO ; Stephen-F BADYLAK ; David-R BLACK ; Randall-J GRETEBECK ; Ya-Ping SU ; Purdue University. West Lafayette. IN. USA
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	American journal of public health (vol. 92, n° 5, 2002)
Pagination :	834-840
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés :	Incapacité ; Adulte ; Homme ; Surveillance épidémiologique ; Epidémiologie ; Etats Unis ; Amérique ; Etat santé ; Facteur risque ; Obésité ; Maladie nutrition ; Amérique du Nord
Résumé :	[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS KVW79R0x. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Objectives. This study examined whether body mass index (BMI) or change in BMI raises the risk of disability in adulthood. Methods. The relation between BMI and upper-and lower-body disability was examined among adult subjects from a national longitudinal survey (n=6833). Tobit regression models were used to examine the effect of BMI on disability 10 and 20 years later. Results. Obesity (BMI>=30) at baseline or becoming obese during the study was associated with higher levels of upper-and, especially, lower-body disability. In persons who began the study with a BMI of 30 or more and became normal weight, disability was not reduced. Underweight persons (BMI<18.5) also manifested higher disability in most instances. Conclusions. Disability risk was higher for obese persons, but overweight was not consistently associated with higher disability.

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