Minor Weight Problems Can Be Harmful
Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston studied nearly 124,000 middle-aged men and women. They measured participants' body mass index and looked for an association between it and the risk of developing several diseases over the next 10 years. These diseases included type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, colon cancer, gallstones and stroke.
The research team discovered that a person need not be greatly overweight to have weight-related health problems. BMI is the quotient of a person's weight divided by their height. Someone with a BMI of 25 or more is said to be overweight. A BMI over 30 means a person is obese.
As reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine (2001;161:1581-1586), the study showed women with a BMI of 25 to 29.9 were significantly more likely to develop gallstones, high blood pressure, heart disease and high cholesterol. It also found those who were overweight had more than three times the risk of developing type 2 diabetes than thinner people. That risk was roughly 20 times greater in obese adults with a BMI over 35.
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