Zitat:Florida’s obesity rate may be higher than originally thought. A widely used national health survey puts the overall obesity rate in the state at 27.8 percent, but a new study based on an analysis of a robust clinical data repository shows a rate of 37.1 percent — nearly 10 percentage points higher.
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https://news.ufl.edu/articles/2018/06/fl...finds.html
Zitat:Risk starts to increase at high-end of healthy weight
We found that the lowest risk was found among those with a BMI of 23, at which point the risk increased linearly, around 5% higher risk of hospital admission, 10% higher risk of ICU admission, and 4% of death per each unit increase in BMI.