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Paul Ernsberger, PhD
Cornell University Medical College New York

JAMA. 1987;257(14):1895-1896.

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To the Editor.—

Manson and colleagues¹ omitted several facts from their table of studies relating adiposity and mortality. Findings from the Yugoslavia, Western Electric, Pooling Project, and Manitoba studies pertain only to the incidence of coronary heart disease, not to all-cause mortality. In the Pooling Project, the relationship between weight and allcause mortality was U-shaped, with the nadir of the curve occurring at weights above the cohort mean.^2,3 In the Norway study, the nadir of the mortality curve occurred at weights above, not below, the cohort mean. In fact, peak life expectancy for Norwegian women was associated with weights 26% to 36% above the 1959 insurance tables.³ There was no association between weight and mortality in the Whitehall study, even after controlling for smoking or after removing data for the first two years of follow-up.⁴

Furthermore, Manson and colleagues neglected to evaluate methods of subject selection. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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