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Public release date: 13 July 2010
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Men who enter adult life obese are at increased risk of premature death
A new Danish research has found that men who enter adult life obese face a life-long doubling of the risk of
dying prematurely.
The study aimed to investigate how
obesity at age 20 years affects obesity throughout adult life. According to the
team leader, it is important to find out if
excess fat accumulation in early adulthood has lifelong mortality effects because the
obesity epidemic is still progressing rapidly, especially among children and adolescents.
The researchers also investigated the effect of the broad BMI range on mortality from the age of 20 and found the
lowest death risk in the men who had a BMI of 25. Underweight men had a slightly elevated risk, and the risk of
early death crept up steadily by 10% for each BMI unit above 25 for those men who were overweight or obese.
The research team tracked more than 5,000 military conscripts starting at the age of 20 until up to the age of 80.
They found that at any given age, an obese man was twice as likely to die as a man who was not obese and that
obesity at age 20 years had a constant effect on death up to 60 years later. They also found that the chance of
dying early increased by 10% for each BMI point above the threshold for a healthy weight and that this persisted
throughout life, with the obese dying about eight years earlier than the normal
body weight men.
Researcher concluded that it is unclear whether it is being obese at age 20 that conferred the men's increased
death risk or whether the lifelong effect is due to obesity often being a lifelong condition for them. More
research is warranted to find the answer to that question.
The study was presented today, 13 July, at the International Congress on Obesity in Stockholm.
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