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A study is to examine the long-term health of people who have had coronavirus. The Covid in Scotland Study (CISS) will begin recruiting soon, funded by the Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office and led by the University of Glasgow. Researchers hope to identify how many people in Scotland continue to be unwell after having the virus, known as long Covid, as well as what their symptoms are and how it affects their lives. Professor Jill Pell, professor of public health at the University of Glasgow, will lead the study in collaboration with Public Health Scotland and the NHS in Scotland.

According to scientists from the University of Glasgow, obesity should now be treated in the same way. Why? Because obesity and excess body fat appear to cause more deaths than smoking. According to a study published in the BMC Public Health journal, deaths caused by smoking fell from 23.1% to 19.4% between 2003 and 2017 - roughly the period encompassing the smoking ban and subsequent restrictions on cigarette advertising. However, over that same timescale, the percentage of deaths "attributable to obesity and excess body fat" increased from 17.9% to 23.1%. Scientists leading the study estim...

London [UK], February 13 (ANI): The findings of new research suggested that obesity and excess body fat may have contributed to more deaths in England and Scotland than smoking since 2014.

New research has found that since 2014, obesity and excess body fat contributed to deaths at a higher rate.

A study from Glasgow University shows percentage of smoking deaths has fallen from 23 to 19 between 2003 and 2017 while deaths caused by obesity rose from 17.9 to 23.1 in the same period.