Breaking Medical News: Overweight and Obese Teens More Likely to Die of Chronic Disease

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Apologies for the foolish link you got on this topic before. Here's the link to

the article now

 

Best, Pat

 

Overweight and Obese Teens More Likely to Die of Chronic Disease

 

A study in today's American Journal of Epidemiology found that people who were

obese or overweight in adolescence were three to four times as likely to have

died of heart disease by middle age as compared with their thinner peers. A

total of 226,678 Norwegian teens were measured for body mass index (BMI) as part

of a compulsory national health survey and followed for an average of 34.9

years. They were found to be two to three times more likely to die from colon

cancer or respiratory disease. Women in the highest BMI category were at

increased risk of death from cervical cancer and both sexes were at increased

risk for sudden death.

 

Bjørge T, Engeland A, Tverdal A, Smith GD. Body mass index in adolescence in

relation to cause-specific mortality: a follow-up of 230,000 Norwegian

adolescents. Am J Epidemiol. 2008;168:30-37.

 

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