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Dec 11, 2020
THURSDAY, Dec. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) Longer obesity duration is associated with worse cardiometabolic disease risk factors, according to a study published online Dec. 8 in
PLOS Medicine.
Tom Norris, Ph.D., from Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, and colleagues used harmonized body mass index and cardiometabolic disease risk factor data from 20,746 participants (49.1 percent male and 97.2 percent White) enrolled in three British birth cohort studies the 1946 National Survey of Health and Development, the 1958 National Child Development Study, and the 1970 British Cohort Study to investigate whether the duration of obesity was related to heterogeneity in cardiometabolic risk.
The researchers found that greater obesity duration was associated with worse values for all cardiometabolic disease risk factors. The strongest association with obesity duration was for glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c). HbA1c levels in those with obesity for less than five years