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The Contribution of Obesity to International Differences in Longevity

Description: The United States has the highest prevalence of obesity and one of the lowest life expectancies among developed nations. The objective of this research is to identify the contribution of obesity to international differences in longevity. Results will lead to improved mortality projections and a clearer understanding of how obesity is influencing national mortality profiles.

Funder: National Institute on Aging

Funding type: research

Funder scheme: R01

Start date: 2011-09-01

End date: 2017-08-31

Investigator: SAMUEL H PRESTON

Institution: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Funded outputs count: 47

Funder award ID: R01AG040212

OpenAlex ID: G2298943346

Excess body weight, cigarette smoking, and type II diabetes incidence in the national FINRISK studies

2020 · Neil Mehta, Sari Stenholm, et al. · Annals of Epidemiology · 6

The role of obesity in exceptionally slow US mortality improvement

2018 · Samuel H. Preston, Yana C. Vierboom, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 191

Life expectancy with and without cognitive impairment by diabetes status among older Americans

2017 · Carlos Díaz-Venegas, Daniel C. Schneider, et al. · PLoS ONE · 20

The contribution of differences in adiposity to educational disparities in mortality in the United States

2017 · Yana Vierboom · Demographic Research · 5

County-level contextual factors associated with diabetes incidence in the United States

2017 · Solveig A. Cunningham, Shivani A. Patel, et al. · Annals of Epidemiology · 49

Prevalence and Trends in Lifetime Obesity in the U.S., 1988–2014

2017 · Andrew Stokes, Yu Ni, et al. · American Journal of Preventive Medicine · 41

Risk of Developing Dementia at Older Ages in the United States

2017 · Ezra Fishman · Demography · 58

The Population Health Benefits Of A Healthy Lifestyle: Life Expectancy Increased And Onset Of Disability Delayed

2017 · Neil Mehta, Mikko Myrskylä · Health Affairs · 67

The Contribution of Weight Status to Black-White Differences in Mortality

2017 · Irma T. Elo, Neil Mehta, et al. · Biodemography and Social Biology · 10

The ‘obesity paradox’ may not be a paradox at all

2017 · H R Banack, A Stokes · International Journal of Obesity · 161

The contribution of rising adiposity to the increasing prevalence of diabetes in the United States

2017 · Andrew Stokes, Samuel H. Preston · Preventive Medicine · 21

Weight History and All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality in Three Prospective Cohort Studies

2017 · Edward Yu, Sylvia H. Ley, et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine · 122

Preventing Disability: The Influence Of Modifiable Risk Factors On State And National Disability Prevalence

2017 · Neil K. Mehta, Shivani A. Patel, et al. · Health Affairs · 23

Deaths Attributable to Diabetes in the United States: Comparison of Data Sources and Estimation Approaches

2017 · Andrew Stokes, Samuel H. Preston · PLoS ONE · 166

International differences in the risk of death from smoking and obesity: The case of the United States and Finland

2016 · Neil Mehta, Irma Elo, et al. · SSM - Population Health · 7

How Dangerous Is Obesity? Issues in Measurement and Interpretation

2016 · Andrew Stokes, Samuel H. Preston · Population and Development Review · 35

Validating a summary measure of weight history for modeling the health consequences of obesity

2016 · Andrew Stokes, Yu Ni · Annals of Epidemiology · 18

Future healthy life expectancy among older adults in the US: a forecast based on cohort smoking and obesity history

2016 · Bochen Cao · Population Health Metrics · 20

Are major behavioral and sociodemographic risk factors for mortality additive or multiplicative in their effects?

2016 · Neil Mehta, Samuel Preston · Social Science & Medicine · 44

Association between Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Mortality in NHANES

2016 · EZRA I. FISHMAN, JEREMY A. STEEVES, et al. · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 206

How smoking affects the proportion of deaths attributable to obesity: assessing the role of relative risks and weight distributions

2016 · Andrew Stokes, Samuel H Preston · BMJ Open · 18

Revealing the burden of obesity using weight histories

2016 · Andrew Stokes, Samuel H. Preston · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 99

The contribution of a history of heavy smoking to Scotland's mortality disadvantage

2016 · Laura A. Kelly, Samuel H. Preston · Population Studies · 7

Smoking and reverse causation create an obesity paradox in cardiovascular disease

2015 · Andrew Stokes, Samuel H. Preston · Obesity · 112

Effects of categorization and self-report bias on estimates of the association between obesity and mortality

2015 · Samuel H. Preston, Ezra Fishman, et al. · Annals of Epidemiology · 57