Obesity at 20: 70% Higher Risk of Death

Oxford study with 600,000 people reveals that obesity between ages 17 and 29 raises the risk of premature death. Swipe to see →

WHAT HAPPENED

Researchers from the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford, in collaboration with scientists in China...

CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND

The relationship between obesity and mortality is not a new discovery. Decades of epidemiological research have established that excess...

IMPACT ON THE POPULATION

The results of the Oxford study have direct implications for millions of young adults around the world and for the healthcare systems...

WHAT THE STAKEHOLDERS ARE SAYING

Tanja Stocks, associate professor at Lund University in Sweden and one of the researchers involved in the data analysis, summarized the...

NEXT STEPS

The Oxford researchers and their collaborators plan to deepen the data analysis to identify which population subgroups are most...

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