Abstract
Masters et al. suggested that the weakening obesity-mortality association with age reported in previous studies was due to uncontrolled confounding effects. They concluded that the obesity-mortality association strengthened with increasing age when those confounding factors were controlled for in their analysis. Mehta and Stokes proposed that the findings might be due to interactions between obesity and time-in-study, which Masters et al. (3) argued was an unlikely explanation.I have noticed that the interaction terms between obesity and age-at-survey in their original Tables 2 and 3 (1) were taken as confounding factors of the obesity-mortality association...
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