Fig 1.
Identification of cases.
Table 1.
Characteristics of the study population at first report of poor health, the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, UK, 1998–2015.
Fig 2.
Estimated body mass index levels ten years before (A) and at first report of poor health (B) and BMI slopes (C) by age at first report of poor health (cases) or age when sampled (controls).
Fig 3.
Modelled body mass index trajectories before first report of poor health at different ages (indicated by circles at 60, 70, 80 and 90 years) based on the entire sample (A) and those who never smoked (B), participants without diabetes (C), cardiovascular disease (D), cancer (E) and chronic lung disease (F). Cases: filled circle and red line; controls: empty circle and blue line.