New proof of link between obesity and disease

Medical XPress ^ | July 31, 2019 | The Lead Australia-The Lancet

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The University of South Australia's Australian Centre for Precision Health researchers examined links between body mass index (BMI) and more than 925 diseases in 337536 UK volunteers, confirming the link between obesity and conditions such as diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease.

"We conducted five different analyses and the more consistent the evidence for a causal association between obesity and health outcomes across these five different approaches, the more confident we could be that we were looking at the true causal effect," Professor Hypponen said.

She said while previous research suggested a high BMI was linked with increased risk of chronic diseases, the clinical trials used to asses health risks of obesity were typically too small or too short to assess causation with many of the diseases.

To overcome this challenge, Professor Hypponen said they used alternative statistical approaches.

"The results were really quite astounding," she said.

"Fully consistent evidence across all approaches was seen for 14 different diseases, and for 26 different diseases evidence was obtained by at least four of the five methods used.

Professor Hypponen said while all five of the approaches used to help prove causation rely on a number of statistical assumptions by working through each of the approaches, they were able to note consistent evidence of causal association.

One of the key findings, according to Professor Hypponen, was the strong the relationship observed between obesity and diabetes.

"For example, we saw evidence for obesity effects on peripheral nerve disorders, chronic leg and foot ulcers, and even gangrene and kidney failure, which are all known to be diabetic complications.

"This suggests a key aspect to reduce comorbidity risk in obesity is careful monitoring of blood sugar and effective control of diabetes and its complications."

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I am not making fun of starving people, I am making fun of the self righteous Food Police that infect all these threads with morally superior thoughts on how we should or should not behave. You put yourself in that category, not me.

If you chose to be eternally offended it is your problem, not mine.