Large Waist Doubles Risk of Premature Death
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Tags: Death, Doubles, Large, Premature, Risk, Waist
I’m sure most of us already know that a big waist = bad, but this study caught my eye due to;
a) The sheer size of it (300,000 + participants)
and
b) That these findings were independent of body mass index (BMI). Here are some more details of the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The risk of premature death was approximately double for subjects with a larger Read the rest of this entry »
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Nov 15 2008