Weight Loss and Mortality: What Does the Evidence Show?

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Original Author: Stampfer Meir

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A study in this month''s PLoS Medicine concludes that, "deliberate weight loss in overweight subjects, without known co-morbidities,

may be hazardous in the long term." Stampfer questions whether the data really support such a conclusion.

Published: June 28, 2005

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<div dir='ltr'><font size='6'><b>Weight Loss and Mortality: What Does the Evidence Show?</b></font><br /><br /><strong>Summary by:</strong><a href="http://www.shvoong.com/writers/plos/" title="PLoS" target="_blank">PLoS</a><br />A study in this month''s PLoS Medicine concludes that, "deliberate weight loss in overweight subjects, without known co-morbidities, may be hazardous in the long term." Stampfer questions whether the data really support such a conclusion.<br /><a href="http://www.shvoong.com/medicine-and-health/1792679-weight-loss-mortality-evidence/" target="_blank">Weight Loss and Mortality: What Does the Evidence Show?</a> Originally published in Shvoong: <a href="http://www.shvoong.com/medicine-and-health/1792679-weight-loss-mortality-evidence/" target="_blank">http://www.shvoong.com/medicine-and-health/1792679-weight-loss-mortality-evidence/</a> </div>

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