Study2013: Overweight linked illnesses require treatment

Australian study reported that people who suffer from obesity and overweight are more likely than lean to disease. According to the study, each increase in body mass means higher risk of severe disease and obesity may threaten health.

Australian study showed that regardless of the nature of life and other factors associated with the health of people suffering from overweight are more likely than lean to enter the hospital because of a variety of diseases. The researchers wrote in the International Journal of Obesity that this does not apply only to those who suffer from obesity, but also to those who suffer from an increase in weight as well. And for those in middle age, the researchers found that each extra point in body mass index (BMI), which is ranging between 2.7 to 3.2 kg, is associated with increased four percent in the likelihood of hospitalization during the two-year period.

Said Rosemary Korda, who led the study, one of the Australian National University in Canberra, "There is significant evidence that severe obesity is harmful to health and lead to higher rates of disease and therefore greater use of health services and higher death rates." "What show this study is that there is a gradual increase in the probability hospitalization with increased body mass index starting with people who are overweight. Other words even overweight (but not obese) have an increased risk."


The study included nearly 250 thousand people, aged 45 years and older, from New South Wales. After knowledge of height and weight and other issues concerning the nature of life, the researchers followed these people involved in the study data across hospitals. Over the past two years income of more than 61 thousand people hospitalized for one night at least. Korda's team found that among people with a natural indicator of body mass hospitalization rate was 120 cases per thousand men and 102 per thousand women per year. For those who suffer from severe obesity rate was 203 per thousand men and 183 per thousand women in the Mediterranean.

The researchers stressed that the weight gain was of particular importance in the possibility of some hospital admissions for diabetes and heart disease, chest pain, arthritis and asthma.

Researchers from the United States have revealed the results of a study over the summer that abdominal fat put the health of persons with normal weight for the deaths of more than overweight peers Almtozaa on other parts of the body. They attributed to the fact that people with excess fat in the abdominal area are more vulnerable to the risk of a circulatory diseases of the heart than their peers who distributed Dhunhm excess.

PSC. / P. C. (D. B., Reuters)