Obese women reach middle age can live up to 70 years but are far from being as healthy as women who maintain a healthy balance in their lives, according to U.S. researchers.
Thus, the study found that women were gaining weight since age 18, ended in the worst shape, the researchers said.
Most had some kind of physical or mental, more than a third had both chronic diseases and physical or mental limitations.
“As more and more Americans who survive to older ages and at the same time, gain weight, our results could be particularly important with regard to public health policy and clinical merit further investigation and confirmation in additional studies, researchers wrote in the British Medical Journal.
Qi Sun and colleagues at the School of Public Health at Harvard and the Brigham and Omen’s Hospital in Boston studied more than 17,000 women who participated in the ongoing Nurses Health Study.
These women had an average of 50 years and were healthy in 1976, researchers analyzed various aspects of their lives and lifestyles, including smoking and weight.
“Of the women who survived at least until age 70, met the criteria for the healthy survival.
The findings “underscore the importance of maintaining a healthy weight in adulthood,” wrote the researchers.
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