Body mass index and mortality among US male physicians*1

To assess the relationship between body mass index and mortality in a population homogeneous in educational attainment and socioeconomic status. We analyzed the association between body mass index (BMI) and both all-cause and cause-specific mortality among 85,078 men aged 40 to 84 years from the Physicians' Health Study enrollment cohort. During 5 years of follow-up, we documented 2856 deaths (including 1212 due to cardiovascular diseases and...