Meeting Abstracts of the 16th European Congress on Obesity (ECO), Geneva, Switzerland, 14-17 May 2008

Track 1 – Track 5

Workshop on estimating the health burden of overweight and obesity

• K K Steinberg
• W H Dietz

Track 1 – Track 5

The other causality question: estimating attributable fractions for obesity as a cause of mortality

• B J Levine

Does obesity shorten life? The importance of well-defined interventions to answer causal questions

• M A Hernán
• S L Taubman

Causal models for estimating the effects of weight gain on mortality

• J M Robins

Adjusting for reverse causality in the relationship between obesity and mortality

• W D Flanders
• L B Augestad

Which factors confound or modify the relationship between body weight and mortality?

• R S Cooper

Issues related to modeling the body mass index–mortality association: the shape of the association and the effects of smoking status

• R A Durazo-Arvizu
• R S Cooper

BMI-related errors in the measurement of obesity

• K J Rothman

Selection of measures in epidemiologic studies of the consequences of obesity

• J Stevens
• J E McClain
• K P Truesdale