Obesity 3 Times More Lethal In Men Than Women, Study Says

Obesity is found to be three times more lethal for men than it is for women. Based on a new study on obesity, even the slightest increase in being overweight can be a risk for early death.

Obesity means an increase in weight above the BMI of 30, which is way above normal. The study on obesity is one of the most extensive researches done on the topic of weight and death, and analyzed approximately 4 million men and women worldwide.

According to Consumer health day, the researchers found out that men of normal weight were 19 percent more likely to die before age 70 and for women, it was 11 percent. Despite these findings, the risk increases tremendously for men and women who are obese, with as much as 30 percent likelihood for an early death for men, and 15 percent for women.

Dr. Emanuele Di Angelantonio, a lecturer at University of Cambridge in England, they found out that obese men were at higher risk of premature death than obese women. This finding coincides with the observation that obese men have higher insulin resistance, risk of diabetes, and fatty liver.

Obesity study lead researcher Richard Peto, professor of medical statistics and epidemiology in the University of Oxford England, stated that obesity is the second leading cause of early death in the United States, with smoking ranking first.

The obesity study used 3.9 million adults aged 20 to 90 years old participants gathered from 189 studies in various parts of the world, Houston Chronicle reported.  According to Dr. David Katz, president of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, there's a definitive link between obesity and premature deaths, but not like the one done on the study, which showed the obesity and mortality link being constantly challenged.

Obesity is pandemic and continues to rise increasing the risk of humanity to live shorter. The study aims to do corrective actions at a worldwide approach for people to understand that health risk like obesity, leads to early death.