Abstract
association between BMI and mortality in a sample of older men from the well-known Whitehall Study of civil servants. The paper considers the impact of change in BMI over a 30 year period for several causes of death. The study found increases and decreases in BMI to be associated with increased risk of all-cause and CVD mortality, while only BMI decreases were associated with increased risk of respiratory disease mortality. The results need to be put into the context of the whole life course BMI trajectory. Broadly, BMI
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