The role of obesity in mortality from digestive diseases in UK Biobank.

ABSTRACT: Most current studies use body mass index (BMI) or waist circumference (WC) to define obesity, and BMI, which reflects subcutaneous fat independent of visceral fat, is the most commonly used indicator of obesity. WC reflects subcutaneous and visceral fat. This research aims to investigate the effect of obesity on mortality in people with digestive diseases. According to BMI and WC, we divided patients with obesity into the following four groups: general obesity, abdominal obesity, combined obesity, and non-obese. The effects of different obesity types on mortality in a population with digestive diseases were analysed via Cox regression and inverse probability-weighted Cox regression. Our research employed multivariate imputation via the chained equations method to interpolate missing values

SUBMITTER: Wang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11544038 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature