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Raphael Simon Peter1, Ella Fromm, Jochen Klenk
1Agency for Preventive and Social Medicine, Bregenz, Austria; Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany.
Objectives:
To quantify changes in height, weight and their compound effect on the body mass index (BMI) in a large cohort of Central-European men and women.
Methods:
The Vorarlberg health monitoring and prevention program (VHM&PP) is a population-based risk factor surveillance program in Vorarlberg. Data of health examinations during January 1985 to June 2005 were available including 714,181 height and weight measurements in 185,192 persons (53.9% women). We estimated yearly percentage change of anthropometric parameters over the age range from 20 to 85 years within intervals of 5 years.
Results:
We found that weight increased until the age of 70 years (from the age of 20 years: +24.8% in men and +27.6% in women), with the highest increase in men aged 20-25 years (1.07% per year). Height was shown to decrease starting from the age group 45-50 years. This decrease accelerated with age, and was more pronounced in women than in men.
Conclusions:
Weight is strongly related to aging. In older individuals height loss affects BMI and masks weight loss to some degree.
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