Obesity and smoking are equal risk factors for death

Obese adolescents have the same risk of premature death in adulthood as people who smoke more than 10 cigarettes a day, according to a new study from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. What most interested the researchers is that the combination of overweight and smoking did not act synergistically as mortality risk factors. "This means that being overweight or obese at the age of 18 increases the risk of premature death, regardless of smoking status", said Doctor Martin Neovius, at the Department of Medicine, Solna, who lead the study. The research analysed the cause of death of over...