title: Effects of intended weight loss on morbidity and mortality: possible explanations of controversial results.
abstract: Long-term, population-based, observational studies have shown that intended weight loss does not always reduce the mortality associated with obesity. The effects of weight loss on mortality may be a balance between the effects of the loss of harmful abdominal and ectopic fat mass and the loss of beneficial peripheral subcutaneous fat mass and lean body mass.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Centre for Health and Society, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Tina
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Berentzen
authors.forename: Thorkild I A
authors.initials: TI
authors.lastname: Sørensen
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000378:metabolism; D001823:Body Composition / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000378:metabolism; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality*; D015431:Weight Loss / Q000502:physiology