Weight Loss and Mortality: What Does the Evidence Show?

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.

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Autor principal: Stampfer, Meir
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2005
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Perspectives
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1160586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15971953
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020181
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spelling pubmed-11605862005-06-29 Weight Loss and Mortality: What Does the Evidence Show? Stampfer, Meir PLoS Med Perspectives 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. Public Library of Science 2005-06 2005-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC1160586/ /pubmed/15971953 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020181 Text en Copyright: © 2005 Meir Stampfer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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title_short Weight Loss and Mortality: What Does the Evidence Show?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1160586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15971953
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