TY - JOUR
T1 - Measures of adiposity and coronary heart disease mortality in the Chicago Western Electric Company Study
AU - Spataro, J. Anthony
AU - Dyer, Alan R.
AU - Stamler, Jeremiah
AU - Shekelle, Richard B.
AU - Greenlund, Kurt
AU - Garside, Dan
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Dr. Andrew (Tony) Jacksona t the Department of Health and Human Performance (University of Houston, Hcwwn, TX) for providing the equations for calculating percent body fat. The authors also thank Karen Ruth for her technical assistance. This work was supported by Grant HL21010 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and was conducted while Dr. 1 Anthony Spataro was a postdoctoral fellow supported by Grant HLO7113 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
PY - 1996/8
Y1 - 1996/8
N2 - Associations of body mass index (BMI), two measures of percent body fat derived from skinfolds, body weight adjusted for height, triceps and subscapular skinfolds, and their sum, with 22-year coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality were compared in 1707 white men ages 40-55 years at baseline (1958) and free of CHD and cancer in 1961 in the Western Electric Study. Because associations of adiposity measures with CHD mortality differed by length of follow-up, analyses were conducted separately for the first 14 years of follow-up and years 15 through 22. In Cox regression analyses, none of the adiposity measures was significantly related to CHD mortality for the first 14 years of follow-up. For years 15-22, all adiposity measures, except triceps skinfold, were significantly related with adjustment for age, as well as eight other covariates. These results indicate that a positive relation of adiposity to CHD risk may not become apparent until several years after the assessement of adiposity.
AB - Associations of body mass index (BMI), two measures of percent body fat derived from skinfolds, body weight adjusted for height, triceps and subscapular skinfolds, and their sum, with 22-year coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality were compared in 1707 white men ages 40-55 years at baseline (1958) and free of CHD and cancer in 1961 in the Western Electric Study. Because associations of adiposity measures with CHD mortality differed by length of follow-up, analyses were conducted separately for the first 14 years of follow-up and years 15 through 22. In Cox regression analyses, none of the adiposity measures was significantly related to CHD mortality for the first 14 years of follow-up. For years 15-22, all adiposity measures, except triceps skinfold, were significantly related with adjustment for age, as well as eight other covariates. These results indicate that a positive relation of adiposity to CHD risk may not become apparent until several years after the assessement of adiposity.
KW - Adiposity
KW - Body mass index
KW - Coronary heart disease
KW - Mortality
KW - Percent body fat
KW - Skinfolds
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U2 - 10.1016/0895-4356(96)00067-4
DO - 10.1016/0895-4356(96)00067-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 8699203
AN - SCOPUS:0030220064
SN - 0895-4356
VL - 49
SP - 849
EP - 857
JO - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
JF - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
IS - 8
ER -
