Associations of Body Mass Index and Anthropometric Indicators of Fat Mass and Fat Free Mass with All-cause Mortality among Women in the First and Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys Follow-up Studies

This study tests whether fat mass (FM) and fat free mass (FFM) have opposite associations with mortality in a nationally representative sample of females.Data on 13,369 female participants from National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) I and II (aged 25 to 75 years) were analyzed. Mean follow-up time was 16.1 years. Ninety-seven percent of the participants with 3020 deaths were successfully followed. Subscapular and triceps...