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Longer Obesity Duration Increases Cardiometabolic Disease Risk – DocWire News
A longer duration of obesity is associated with greater cardiometabolic disease risk factors, according to a new study published in PLOS Medicine. Risk

A longer duration of obesity is associated with greater cardiometabolic disease risk factors, according to a new study published in PLOS Medicine.
Risk stratification for cardiometabolic disease is not the same for all people with obesity, defined here as individuals with a body mass index (BMI) greater than 30 kg/m2. The amount of time a person has spent with obesity over their life is suspected to be a factor in cardiometabolic risk variation for this population.
For this study, researchers collected…
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