Effects of intended weight loss on morbidity and mortality: possible explanations of controversial results.
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.
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Tina
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Institute for Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Centre for Health and Society, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Thorkild I A
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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