Who Said Fat Faster People Died?

So far you have been fed a variety of research that states that obesity and being overweight can lead to cardiovascular disease risk and damage to various systems in the body until death.

But in fact, a recent study that obesity is to encourage you not to worry because the condition does not merely carry the risk of death. This conclusion is revealed by a team of researchers from the University of California-Davis, USA.

Than people of normal weight, people who are overweight do not indicate an increased risk of death during the study period of six years.

Even people who are obese are not at high risk of acute, it's just suffering from diabetes or hypertension risk that could cause death.

Initially questioned the findings of previous studies that still use the data when the number of obese people is still not an epidemic it is today.

The study linked the condition of obesity with risk of short-term mortality rates are higher in people who have extra weight.

"A lot of people who overdo believe that being overweight or obese are at increased risk of death. Yet our findings indicate this is not the main problem," said Anthony Jerant, associate professor of community medicine and family of California-Davis, who led the study.

"After evaluating these studies for six years, we found that only acute obesity was often associated with an increased risk of death from diabetes and hypertension," he said as quoted by newkerala, Monday (07/09/2012).

Jerant using national data from the years 2000-2005, included 51 000 adults aged 18-90 years who participated in the Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys.

In addition to observing the utilization and cost of healthcare in the U.S., the survey also collected information related to health conditions such as diabetes and hypertension.

The study is published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.