One in 20 people with obesity does not have any other metabolic abnormalities: Study

Obesity alone does not increase the risk of premature death, say scientists who found that obese patients without other metabolic risk factors, do not have an increased rate of mortality.

The study could have an impact on the thinking of obesity Jennifer Kuk, Associate Professor at York University in Canada

"This is in contrast to most of the literature and we think that's because most studies have defined healthy metabolic obesity as having up to a metabolic risk factor, "said Kuk

" This is clearly problematic, as hypertension Previous studies have indicated that these patients with obesity and hypertension were "in good health", which is why most studies have reported that "obesity" healthy "is always badociated with a higher mortality risk," he adds

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

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, suffering from metabolically healthy obesity, will be ordered to lose weight when we can wonder what benefit they will actually receive," he said. -she says.