Inverse association between body mass index and all-cause mortality in rural chinese adults: 15-year follow-up of the Anqing cohort study.
Jie YangNannan ChengYue ZhangLijing YeJingyi LiZiyi ZhouZhuo WangLishun LiuXiao HuangXinglong LiangTianchi LingYongcheng XuYun SongBinyan WangGenfu TangXianhui QinPierre ZallouaHuisheng ZhangFangrong YanXiping XuPublished in: BMJ open (2021)
In this relatively lean rural Chinese population, the risk of all-cause mortality decreased with increasing BMI. The excess risk of all-cause mortality associated with a high BMI was not seen among this rural population.