Specific body mass index trajectories were related to musculoskeletal pain and mortality: 19-year follow-up cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We aimed to study 19-year body mass index (BMI) patterns and their (1) bidirectional relationship with musculoskeletal pain and (2) mortality risk.

Study design and setting

We used data from the Chingford study and group-based trajectory modelling to define 19-year BMI patterns. We investigated whether baseline back, hand, hip, and knee pain (as single- and multi-site) predicted 19-year BMI trajectory, and whether 19-year BMI patterns predicted pain in year 20. We explored BMI trajectories and mortality risk over 25 years (life expectancy).

Results

We included 938 women (mean age: year-1=54, year-20=72) and found seven distinct 19-year BMI trajectories: two normal-weighted (reference), slightly overweight, lower and upper overweight-to-obese, lower and upper

SUBMITTER: Radojcic MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8982643 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature