A large US study has found that being overweight but not obese carried a slightly lower risk of dying within the study period than being a supposedly healthy weight
To address those issues, his team analysed data from a more recent study, which began in 1999, and tracked the survival of about 500,000 ethnically diverse US adults of known height and weight, for up to 20 years.
Having a BMI between 25 and 27.4 carried a 5 per cent lower risk of death in this time period than a BMI within the healthy weight category of 22.5 to 24.9. A slightly higher BMI, of 27.5 to 29.9, seemed even better, linked with a 7 per cent lower risk of death.Get the most essential health and fitness news in your inbox every Saturday.
But in the new research, the pattern was seen even if people who died within two years of entering the study were excluded from the figures. Visaria says it would be premature to conclude that having a BMI currently classed as overweight is better than being in the healthy weight category, because population studies such as this one can have biases that distort the results. “We are not clear that this is truly interpretable yet,” he says. “A more appropriate message is that BMI overall is just not a good indicator of mortality risk – other factors such as body fat distribution also play an important role.
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