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. 2022 Feb 17;68(12):1366–1374. doi: 10.1159/000522040

Table 2.

The association between baseline self-reported weight loss and all-cause mortality in 2,017 older adults

Weight loss n/Events Model 1
Model 2
Model 3*
Model 3
women men
HR (95% CI) p value HR (95% CI) p value HR (95% CI) p value n/events HR (95% CI) p value n/events HR (95% CI) p value
No weight loss 1,684/669 Reference Reference Reference 981/323 Reference 703/346 Reference
Loss 1–3 kg 219/86 1.04 (0.83–1.30) 0.71 1.07 (0.85–1.35) 0.56 1.09 (0.87–1.38) 0.45 135/48 1.14 (0.86–1.61) 0.29 84/38 1.01 (0.71–1.44) 0.96
Loss >3 kg 114/57 1.44 (1.09–1.88) 0.008 1.27 (0.97–1.68) 0.09 1.29 (0.98–1.70) 0.07 67/23 1.09 (0.72–1.68) 0.66 47/34 1.52 (1.05–2.18) 0.03

Model 1: gender (and age as the time scale in the model). Model 2: model 1 + adjusted for education, living status, smoking, alcohol consumption, depression, ischemic pathologies, chronic conditions, and recent cancer. Model 3: model 2 + baseline BMI categories.

*

p value for the interaction term between gender and weight loss was <0.001.