Obesity alone does not increase the risk of early mortality: study

"This is in contrast to most of the literature and we think it's because most studies have defined healthy metabolic obesity as having up to a metabolic risk factor. "Kuk said. Previous studies have indicated that these patients with obesity and hypertension were "in good health", which is why most studies have reported that "healthy" obesity is still badociated with a higher mortality risk, "he adds

. Kuk's study showed that unlike dyslipidemia, hypertension or diabetes alone, which are badociated with a high mortality risk, this is not the case of obesity alone.

The study followed 54,089 men and women from five cohorts alone or in groups with a metabolic factor, or elevated blood glucose, blood pressure or lipids alone or clustered with obesity or another factor metabolic.

The researchers looked at how many people in each group died compared to those in the normal weight population without metabolic risk factors.

Current weight management guidelines suggest that anyone with a BMI greater than 30 should lose weight. This implies that if you have obesity, even without any other risk factor, it makes you unhealthy.

The researchers found that one in 20 people with obesity did not have any other metabolic abnormalities.

"We show that individuals have discovered that a person of normal weight without any other metabolic risk factor is just as likely to die as the person with obesity and no other risk factors", said Kuk

. "That means that hundreds of thousands of people in North America alone with a metabolically healthy obesity will be told to lose weight when one may wonder what benefit they will actually receive," she said.

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