Associations of relative fat mass and BMI with all-cause mortality: Confounding effect of muscle mass.
Navin SuthaharVictor ZwartkruisBastiaan GeelhoedCoenraad WithaarLaura M G MeemsStephan J L BakkerRon T GansevoortDirk Jan van VeldhuisenMichiel RienstraRudolf A de BoerPublished in: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) (2024)
In the general population, a higher RFM was significantly associated with mortality risk, whereas a higher BMI was not. Adjusting for total muscle mass increased the strength of associations of both RFM and BMI with all-cause mortality.