Obesity Duration Tied to Higher Cardiometabolic Disease Risk
Dec 11, 2020 THURSDAY, Dec. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Longer obesity duration is associated with worse cardiometabolic disease risk factors, according to a study published online Dec. 8 in PLOS Medicine. Tom Norris, Ph.D., from Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, and colleagues used harmonized body mass index and cardiometabolic disease risk factor data from 20,746 participants (49.1 percent male and 97.2 percent White) enrolled in three British birth cohort studies — the 1946 National Survey of Health and Development, the 1958 National Child Development Study, and the 1970 ...
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