Body mass index and mortality among older people living in the community.

摘要: OBJECTIVES: To determine if body mass index (BMI = weight/height2), predictive of mortality in seriously ill hospitalized and institutionalized patients, is also a longitudinal epidemiologic study. DESIGN: A prospective cohort study. SETTING: Rovereto, town northern Italy. PARTICIPANTS: consecutive sample 214 patients aged 81.2 ± 7.3 years receiving community care services. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Malnutrition mortality. RESULTS: According to logistic regression analysis, malnutrition status, expressed by BMI 27 Kg/m2) was not significantly related risk mortality. CONCLUSIONS: Nutrition variables are cardinal component comprehensive geriatric assessment. Our results suggest that BMI, simple anthropometric measure nutritional an important predictor among older people living the community. Even when controlling for clinical functional variables, low remained significant independent shortened survival. J Am Geriatr Soc 47:1072–1076, 1999.