Impact of obesity on life expectancy among different European countries: secondary analysis of population-level data over the 1975-2012 period.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study assesses the impact of obesity on life expectancy for 26 European national populations and the USA over the 1975-2012 period.

Design

Secondary analysis of population-level obesity and mortality data.

Setting

European countries, namely Austria, Belarus, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and the UK; and the USA.

Participants

National populations aged 18-100 years, by sex.

Measurements

Using data by age and sex, we calculated obesity-attributable mortality by multiplying all-cause mortality (Human Mortality Database) with obesity-at

SUBMITTER: Vidra N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6678519 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature