Body mass index and mortality: understanding the patterns and paradoxes

Affiliations

• ¹ Centre for Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK sarah.wild@ed.ac.uk.
• ² Nutrition and Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK.