Past trends in obesity-attributable mortality in eight European countries: an application of age-period-cohort analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess age, period, and birth cohort effects and patterns of obesity-attributable mortality in Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, and the UK (UK).

Methods

We obtained obesity prevalence and all-cause mortality data by age (20-79), sex and country for 1990-2012. We applied Clayton and Schifflers' age-period-cohort approach to obesity-attributable mortality rates (OAMRs).

Results

Between 1990 and 2012, obesity prevalence increased and age-standardised OAMRs declined, although not uniformly. The nonlinear birth cohort effects contributed significantly (p < 0.01) to obesity-attributable mortality trends in all populations, except in Czech Republic, Finland, and among German women, and Polish men. Their contribution was greater

SUBMITTER: Vidra N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6015618 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature