Overweight, Obesity, and All-Cause Mortality
Abstract
Dr Flegal and colleagues1 concluded that grade 1 obesity was not associated with higher all-cause mortality and that overweight was associated with significantly lower all-cause mortality. Other studies have shown that obesity in different populations, such as elderly people and patients with cardiovascular diseases, is also paradoxically not associated with a higher but rather with a lower mortality risk.2 This has been termed the obesity...
Paper Details
Title
Overweight, Obesity, and All-Cause Mortality
Published Date
Apr 24, 2013
Journal
Volume
309
Issue
16
Pages
1679 - 1679
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