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Overweight, Obesity, and All-Cause Mortality

Jose ViñaMa Carmen Gómez-cabreraConsuelo Borrás

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Malebusiness.industryOverweight obesityMEDLINEGeneral MedicineOverweightOverweightmedicine.diseaseObesityEnvironmental healthmedicineHumansElderly peopleFemaleObesitymedicine.symptombusinessLower mortalityObesity paradoxAll cause mortality

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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 paradox

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2013-04-25JAMA
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2013.3080