BMI and increased death rates: Hazards comparable to smoking
Saturday, March 21, 2009 - 12:42
in Health & Medicine
On 18 March 2009 The Lancet posted on its website a prepublication of a worldwide collaborative analysis of body mass index (BMI) and increased death rates among 900,000 adults in 57 prospective studies. Florida Atlantic University researcher Charles H. Hennekens, M.D., the first Sir Richard Doll Research Professor in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Biomedical Science, served as a major investigator in two of the large scale studies, and enrolled and followed approximately 144,000 adults...