Association of All-Cause Mortality With Overweight and Obesity Using Standard Body Mass Index Categories

Estimates of the relative mortality risks associated with normal weight, overweight, and obesity may help to inform decision making in the clinical setting.To perform a systematic review of reported hazard ratios (HRs) of all-cause mortality for overweight and obesity relative to normal weight in the general population.PubMed and EMBASE electronic databases were searched through September 30, 2012, without language restrictions.Articles that...