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Association of weight loss between early adulthood and midlife with all-cause mortality risk in the US

from JAMA Network

Association of weight loss between early adulthood and midlife with all-cause mortality risk in the US JAMA Network In this combined, repeated cross-sectional analysis of a nationally representative cohort of 24 205 US adults followed up for a mean of 10.7 years, participants who lost weight from an obese body mass index in early adulthood to overweight in midlife had a 54% reduction in mortality risk relative to those who maintained an obese body mass index. An estimated 3.2% of early deaths could have been avoided if those who maintained an obese BMI instead lost weight to an overweight BMI by midlife. READ MORE

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