Analysis of data including BMI, waist circumference and percentage body fat revealed that mortality correlated with BMI and waist circumference, but not with percentage body fat. The death rate ...

Patients with a BMI under 28 showed lower risk of mortality when undergoing immunotherapy compared to conventional chemotherapy, but for those at or over that figure, the risk increases with ...

They also had 2-3-fold lower mortality risk than those of “normal ... be wrongly categorized as overweight or obese by the BMI chart, but at the population level, the metric is “pretty tightly ...

Background For the elderly, the association between waist circumference (WC) and mortality considering body mass index (BMI) remains unclear, and thereby also the evidence base for using these ...

WC, BMI and all-cause mortality had to be available. Additionally, it had to be possible to calculate hazard ratios [relative risks (RRs)] for a follow-up period of 5–8 years (preferably closest ...