Weight loss and mortality: what does the evidence show?

Stampfer, Meir · PLoS Med · 2005

editorial · Level V

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Abstract

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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