As you see in my previous posting, Prof.Lantz's analysis shows a notable finding regarding obesity:
Compared to people in a normal weight range, neither being overweight nor obese is significantly associated with mortality risk. In fact, those conditions were actually protective against mortality for people over age 55.
I have a question: What are your explanations for this strange finding?
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Salam,...I recently visited the blog,.. although the post dates back to Sep. 2010, but the topic is still attractive...
The issue is that obesity/overweight exerts its effects on health and especially on cardiovascular system earlier in life and those who are not genetically - or considering combination of other risk factors- in risk of cardiovascular events will survive and pass this age limits (i.e. 55 years in this study)! so,..I think it's not at all safe to advice people to keep their weight high to help them pass some infections or conditions accompanied by wasting sometimes in their future after age 55 - if they had passed the higher risks generatede and accentuated by obesity/overweight earlier in life!..the findings are not clinically significant I believe.
An objection!!
Referring to the sep.2010 as a old ...is a vie bit strange. It is newly published.
I have a question regarding the information which you have discussed.
Where did you get this knowledge?
You got this knowledge from the previous research defiantly before the sep. 2010 or from old text book
Then why you are insisting that the previous information is correct? Could you tell me the LR of cardiovascular events in young adults?
Compare this with the LR of morbidity after 55 for other reasons.
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